When Reason Cordell has his revolver stolen out of his holster by a rag-tag urchin dressed as a boy, nothing in his life will ever be the same. And when the urchin turns out to be a pretty red-headed girl with mesmerizing sea green eyes, Reason falls hard. But Rachel doesn't come cheap. She is being used in a lucrative con-game by Howard Smith and he will kill any man, woman, or child who gets in his way. And Cole Dansing, who Reason loves like a brother, ends up paying a high price for Reason and Rachel's safety when he is gut-shot by Howard and left on a god-forsaken mountain to die. But the one thing that keeps him alive? Against all insurmountable odds? Is to find his friend Reason, the man who abandoned him when he so desperately needed help, and kill him