Publisher's Synopsis
When lone rider and gunfighter Jake Benteen stumbles across two men in the New Mexico desert robbing a supply wagon, his code does not allow him to just ride on.
They have taken a young girl hostage. By intervening, he can save the young girl's life and right a terrible wrong. But his actions will change his life forever.
As he takes the injured and traumatized girl back to Degado Station he discovers the town's sheriff is an old friend who thanks him for what he did, but warns him that the men he killed were members of an outlaw gang from a nearby town run by a demented man named Wolf. He and his men will want revenge.
Can Jake save the town from total destruction? Can the newfound love of a woman in town tame his heart?
