The story resumes from the end of Independence Pass. Three years later, Daniel accompanies Wheeler and the immensely valuable Silver Queen to the World’s Fair in Chicago. Harry Rich, Daniel’s ex-partner, is kidnapped by Hamlett Kincaid, who forces Harry to help him find Daniel for the reward on him. Daniel disobeys Wheeler’s orders and races to New York in a desperate attempt to find his mother and sister, unaware that a bounty hunter is awaiting him. What follows is a fast-paced, action filled adventure, where the stakes are of the highest order and the outcome far from certain. Trains and guns, friends and enemies, love and disappointment, deceits and forgiveness, murder and betrayal, old family and new all intermingled with changing alliances.