In this roller-coaster new installment in bestselling author Ralph
Compton's Sundown Riders series, a young cowhand faces a trial by fire
on his way to a new home and an old love.
Fresh from a successful trail drive, cattle hand Seth Coe is feeling
flush, especially after a lucky streak at the poker table. But his good
fortune earns him a dangerous enemy, notorious tinhorn gambler Hannibal
Fisher, who is none too happy about being cleaned out.
The innocent Coe starts the long ride back to Texas with big plans to
buy his own ranch. All he needs now, he figures, is a wife. To his
amazement, in tiny Prairie Fire, Kansas he meets the perfect woman, his
childhood love Josette Dubois. But she is under the thumb of her brutal
father, who will stop at nothing to prevent her happiness, including
killing Coe--that is, if Fisher doesn't get there first. . .