Most of bounty hunter Lou Prophet's man-hunting jobs have been purely business transactions that he's carried out with cool professionalism. He's seldom seen the depravations his quarries have committed to earn a price on their heads. But when the Red River Gang raids the town of Luther Falls, Prophet witnesses it in person—and can't do a thing to stop it.

It'll be days before anyone can organize a posse—and a small girl has been kidnapped by the cold-blooded outlaws. Prophet will have to go it alone. But then he meets up with a young woman who's lost her entire family—and thinks that justice and vengeance are one and the same.