A stop at a small-town bank becomes the start of a life-and-death struggle for a young horse dealer when his money is stolen during a holdup.
To a man like Cole Dagget, eight hundred dollars represents a lot of hard hours in the saddle — and just enough to return to Texas, settle down, and get married. There’s no way he’ll let anyone ride off with his money; and there’s no way he’ll wait for the people of Solitude to form up a posse. But when he rides out alone after the four outlaws, there’s more danger on the trail than he realizes.
The outlaws are as canny a bunch as he’s ever run across; and to make matters worse, they’ve taken a teenaged girl with them as a hostage. Dagget can only guess at the trouble hes riding into. What he can’t know is that there’s even more trouble behind him.
The people of Solitude have finally gotten a posse together — and they’re bringing along a rope especially for Cole Dagget. They’re convinced he’s one of the outlaws!
An action-packed, suspenseful tale of the Old West from a master storyteller and expert on the region.