One bloody day, death came to Blanco, Texas. Before the sun went down, the livery stable was torched, an outlaw gang robbed the bank - killing two men to do it - and Ellie Taine was raped. Worst of all, one of the dead was her husband. But Ellie was no victim. When the gunfire ceased, she felt something break inside and something cold take over. Now she took a shotgun and rode out after the desperadoes. But Ellie didn't get far before she met someone else who wanted the outlaws punished. Until that morning old Jonathan Crossland lay sick in bed, waiting to breath his last. Now he was on a horse, determined to live long enough to catch his son's killers and help Ellie Taine get what she was after. . . revenge.