When they came charging at him with guns blazing, Blake Durant had no choice but to kill the two young men he'd never seen before. When the gun smoke cleared, he took the bodies in to nearby Lodge Creek, figuring to report what had happened and find out why they'd been so set on killing him.
Instead, Blake found himself accused of murder and quickly thrown into jail.
The townsfolk reckoned he was part of an outlaw gang that had raided the town a few days earlier, and they wasted no time in sentencing him to hang.
Help came from an unlikely source ... and as the town burned around him, Blake fled with a strange assortment of companions—the town mayor, whose son had been one of the men Blake had shot down, the mayor's daughter Jennifer, whose whole life had been overshadowed by her bullying father, a hapless bank manager who wasn't sure he could find enough backbone to fight the outlaws when they came in pursuit ... and the town marshal, who had sworn to make sure that, one way or the other, Blake would keep his date with the noose!