Lately, John Slocum has been trying to avoid trouble and save a little moneybut a gunslinger like Slocum can't stay out of the action for long. When two men are brutally mauled by an unseen something (or someone) on Fall Pass, Slocum is recruited to go on the huntas much for his sharpshooting skills as for his nerve. Because no one knows for sure whether the thing they're tracking is a manor a beast.