When the owner of a small ranch, Stan Dunstan, is gunned down by an unknown assailant on the church house steps, the town of Del Rio is destined to be the scene of a showdown. The stage is set when Stan's younger brother, Lee, arrives the day after the shooting. Known for his fast gun and two fisted way of life, the entire town knows that trouble is brewing for whoever it was that killed Lee's brother. When he learns that a large ranch owner in the area had been trying to buy Stan out and there was bad blood between the two of them, his search for the guilty centers on Jarrod Blanchard, the big ranch owner. Mason has penned another taut Western adventure that keeps the reader glued to each page.