They call this a prison. Jake Dollop calls it home. There are some men too stubborn to leave, and just about as many too stupid to die. In the new frontier, everyone's got a price. Jake's is high. Wanted for a crime he didn't commit, he wanders into a nowhere town on a half-dead horse with no name.
There he finds himself face to face with a past he'd rather forget. But secrets don't die easy. Or so he thought. The last words of a dying man push him toward a future he doesn't want, but so desperately needs.
Pursued by a crooked sheriff and a past that just won't let go, Jake sets out to settle a debt owed to a dead man at Diablo Hill.
They say there's gold in them hills. But the mountain has its own secrets.