In the years after the civil war, suffering continued in many forms. Henry Dowland survived the battles only to find his sister and niece killed by Sherman's men in Savannah. Now he's on the run, but learns that his demons live inside him. He seeks salvation by riding to the aid of a Mormon town caught between a corrupt Bishop and a gang of robbers and liquor dealers. In a fight that runs from the forested mountains of Wyoming to the salt flats west of the Great Salt Lake, Dowland discovers that a willing spirit drives weak flesh.