An unrepentant outlaw meets a relentless lawman in this Western from Spur Award-winning author Charles G. West.

Boot Stoner spent twelve years of his life behind bars for stealing horses and rustling cattle. Upon release, he added murder and kidnapping to his criminal skills-slaughtering his own parents and abducting his sister, a young Creek girl that his folks had adopted-before exacting revenge against the man responsible for his incarceration.

U.S. Deputy Marshal John Ward is one of the West’s best manhunters. He’s the only one who stands a chance of stopping Stoner’s bloody rampage-and of bringing the girl back alive….