When a card game goes bad, Slocum leaves the son of a powerful man dead. Now he needs to get out of townfast. Deep in the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming, he finds shelter with a rancher's wifebut new trouble finds him there.
When two local hermits take him by surprise, shooting him and killing the woman, Slocum gives chase. Trailing their path of destruction from the Big Horns to Yellowstone, Slocum will make sure the woman's death is avengedno matter the stakes