Chance Tyree never looks for trouble. But with his reputation as a lethal gunfighter, trouble has a habit of finding him. In the Utah canyonlands, Chance ends up on the wrong end of a rope after he's accused of being a hired killer - and he's saved from the hangman by Owen Fowler. Fowler knows what it's like to be punished for another man's crime. He spent nine years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, and now he's come home to start over.

That's something local rancher Quirt Laytham will never allow. He's making a play to take over Fowler's old property, and killing is a small price to pay. On the run from Laytham's men, the new friends hole up with a grizzled cowman and his daughter, and learn that Laytham's sinister ambitions reach even further than they thought. Now, with a dangerous land grabber determined to take them down, and a corrupt sheriff coming for blood, Tyree's lightning-fast draw is the only chance they have left...