Orlando Sackett survived a brutal Mexican prison by using his skills as a boxer, and by making three vows. He intended to get the hired killers who framed him, to return to his father and to find the woman he loved. But the world has changed in the last six years. The woman he loved is married, his father is missing, and the killers want him dead.

Tell Sackett was sitting pretty, with thirty pounds of gold that were mostly his. Maybe that was why when a beautiful raven-haired woman asked to ride with him to Los Angeles, he didn't care that she came with a lot of trouble. A powerful hard ride over the blistering Mojave desert was one third of the trouble. Another third was trackers out for the woman and for his blood. The last third was getting ambushed and being left without the woman, a horse,...