They say every man has a double. For Reason it was like looking into a mirror. But this young man, sitting in a jail cell in Billings, Montana had just shot and killed his half-brother Jasper, legal heir to the Rolling B, right in the middle of Main Street. When Clay Buchanan takes a whip to his already wounded, illegitimate son with the intent to beat the orneriness out of the kid or kill him, Reason, fearing for the kid's life, steps in to take his place. Matters come to a head when stolen horses are found where they shouldn't be, Cole's life is threatened by a killer out for blood, and Reason has to fight for his very existence from a notorious rancher hell-bent on making strong men crawl.