Summary
A blood-slick sunset bleeds across the mesa when Dick Bailey’s comrade is cut down by a phantom slug; the smoking gun, Dick swears, belongs to Stack, the territory’s velvet-gloved viper who keeps the sheriff’s star in his waistcoat pocket. Reeling, Dick storms into the kerosene haze of a cantina and vows to wed the very next silhouette that crosses the swing-doors—enter Ruth Hammond, black-veiled heiress to a spread she has never seen, stepping off the stagecoach like a rebuke to fate. Her first sight of Dick is a slurred proposal hurled amid poker chips and broken glass; disgust flashes in her eyes like a struck match, and she strips him of spurs and foreman’s keys in one contemptuous breath. Yet the ranch she claims is already mortgaged to Stack through back-tax sorcery; ink on parchment outranks blood on soil. Cornered, Ruth rehires the very cowhand she scorned, forging a brittle alliance of vengeance—one part grief, one part steel, zero parts trust. Together they ride into a ledger-war of rustled steers, rigged auctions, and midnight ambushes, where every hoof-beat could be a summons to boot-hill and every handshake hides a derringer.
Synopsis
A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.
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