After a seven year absence, veteran of the Apache Wars Mark Talbot returns to the Dakota Territory to reunite with his brother on their family's cattle ranch to find some peace after fighting and bloodshed for over half of a decade. But when he returns, peace isn't what he finds. Talbot's brother was murdered five years earlier when the Double-X ranch began its quest for sole reign of the Bench, a fertile and prosperous region in the Dakota Territory. And...

Louisa Bonaventure's family was slaughtered by the Three of a Kind Gang. Now Louisa wants vengeance -- and bounty hunter Lou Prophet will stop at nothing to make sure she gets it.