Steven C Lawrence

Tom McBride was the gun-slinging foreman for the sprawling Arrowhead Ranch. Even though Tom's sister's husband was spearheading a fight against Arrowhead, the shooting of one neighbor rancher, the burning out of another, and the dynamiting of a third are causing suspicions about Tom McBride.

The rider on the gelding stared down at the frontier town. His memories of the place were bitter ones because it was here, more than five years ago, that a mob had beaten him for his Union sympathies and then driven him out. Now Ruel Crockett is back.

'Slattery's back in town!' The cry sent fear and hate racing through the town. Five years before, on that same main street, a howling mob had dealt Slattery a nearly fatal beating for the murder they were sure he'd committed. Long years in a savage federal prison had taught him to hate. Now he was back to clear his name or to take a lot of people to hell with him if he died trying. But the only person who knew the truth had mysteriously disappereard,...