A vital piece of information regarding a "person of great interest" to D sends him galloping across a dangerous desert. He is tailed by Granny Viper, the people finder, who needs to cross the desert herself to bring home one of the Hidden, someone once imprisoned by a Noble.

Doubtful that they can make it through the journey alive, Granny ingratiates themselves to D, hoping that the vampire hunter would protect them from the perils of the land when the time comes. Which is just as well, since "the desert of no return," as the name implies, is no ordinary desert. In fact, no one has ever come out of it alive!

Along the way, D gets on the wrong side of the Bullow Brothers, two of the roughest, toughest hunters there are and they are looking for some payback.

It's D out on the wild frontier, complete with covered wagon and guns a-blazin'. Or rather, sword a-slashin'.