Summary
Under a sun-bleached sky that feels like cracked parchment, Vic Collins—dust-caked cowboy whose silhouette alone smells of sagebrush and unpaid debts—watches his herd evaporate into rumor. Hoofprints simply cease, as though the prairie itself were in cahoots with absence. Into this vacuum rides Lorraine Leighton, a city-bred siren in gabardine and secrets, her gloved hands steering fate like a runaway carriage. Accusation ricochets: townsfolk whisper that her perfume masks the stench of larceny, that she choreographs the rustlers’ nocturnal ballet. A skirmish flares; gunstock meets skull, and Vic—blood in his eyes, faith unshaken—still refuses the narrative sold by gossip’s gavel. Only later, in a lantern-lit stable fragrant with manure and revelation, does Lorraine exhale the truth: her brother rotted in a cell for crimes she intends to avenge by netting the phantom thieves. Together with wry horse trader Lafe Brownell, they stage a last-ditch round-up of scoundrels and of their own scarred hearts, galloping toward a horizon that may forgive them.
Synopsis
Cowpuncher Vic Collins, who is suffering tremendous losses at the hand of cattle rustlers, falls in love with Lorraine Leighton from Kansas City. The rustlers hide their tracks, but Lorraine is suspected of being their leader. Vic, however, will not believe the rumor even though she hits him on the head with a gun butt while he is fighting a rustler. Ultimately, Lorraine discloses that she is trying to capture the gang for sending her brother to jail, and with the help of Lafe Brownell they capture the horse thieves.
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