Lone succeeds in returning Roxanne to Rainrock, the town where she was originally convicted and where the re-trial is set to be held. Faced with this, however, the town conspirators responsible for setting Roxanne up in the first place mount another campaign to try and make certain the real truth never comes out. Before it is over, trusts will be betrayed, bullets will fly, lives will be lost, and McGantry must once again ride to Roxanne's rescue . . . until, within the stark, hauntingly empty reaches of the fabled Toadstool Badlands, scores are settled and a bloody reckoning is finally achieved.