"They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian country who'd headed east to see the ocean but left his heart - and his home - in the West. They were women like Lilith Prescott, a smart, spirited beauty who fled her family and fell for a gambling man in the midst of a frontier gold boom. There pioneering...

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.

Young greenhorn Vance Brady, fresh out of Boston College, came all the way to Harrison, Montana, with a purpose. He intends to avenge the death of Mike Shanahan, a rancher who died in a saloon "accident."