For the first time in years, Cord and Chi aren't wanted by the law. So, saddled up with Chi's recent poker winnings, they light out for a life of genteel ranching on a spread Cord had always been fixing to acquire. But they hit a detour in Paradise Valley, where the notorious Eudora Craven has holed up with her two mean-tempered sons against a band of hard riders hell-bent on settling blood for blood. Hiding out with Eudora and her boys is Arrowsmith, a dying gunslinger who long ago had saved Chi's life—and now was calling in the debt. Can a woman go with the wrong side, but for the right reason? Chi makes the tough choice, with all the authority she needs to back it up—a sharpshooting partner named Cord.