Reuben Cole has seen it all. Now retired, he spends his days on a rocking chair in the shade, watching the world pass by.

But when Miss Amelie reports an intruder, something crawls up his back like ice splinters forming on a window pane. After young sheriff Stone doesn't come back after investigating the report, Cole knows he must once more strap on his six-gun and bring the guilty to justice.

But he is not a young man anymore. Does he still have what it takes to face down cold-blooded killers, and live to tell the tale?