It was said that a fortune in outlaw gold lay buried under the hill. Leastways, that's what Torp Berry and his gang of cutthroats believed. But they were damned if they'd clear that hill and shift all the rocks themselves. No – it was easier for them to waylay any passing strangers and set them to work instead ... at gunpoint.
Into this situation rode Blake Durant. He'd come to deliver a message from a dead man. Next thing he knew, he was disarmed, half-starved, chained to a wall every freezing night and forced into hard labor or face Will Hapgood's deadly whip.
So Blake bided his time. Right now he and the others were damned to a short, hard life of slavery. But when the day of the damned was over there would come another day ... one of reckoning!