Tracy Chavis rode with caution, one hand never far from his gun. Behind him stretched a four-year trail blazed by gunflame and the guilt of an unfulfilled mission — to recover the five thousand dollars robbed from Chainlink's boss Jim Boyce. Ahead glowed the welcoming lights of Spanish Flat. Then a group of riders cut across the lights of the town and suddenly the guns opened up. But as he rode in after his attackers had disappeared he knew that somehow his coming had been foreshadowed. But who had shot at him? And who had known?
He had finally returned to Chainlink only to find out that Jim Boyce was dead and his daughter was in the middle of a range war between Ben Majors and Sid Vivian. Could Chavis depend on a small group of allies in a battle to save Chainlink? And who would be the next to point a loaded Colt at him and pull the trigger?