Betrayal and murder was the legacy left behind by Zak Doolin, along with two panniers filled with gold ore that no one had ever found. His reprobate children, Candi and Reg, wanted that gold yet they were no closer to it than anyone else. Obsessed with her lust for the gold, Candi would stop at nothing to possess it. Then Spence Logan rode into town.The first thing Spence did was get into a gunfight saving Rose Kindle from a man bent on doing her harm. In doing so, he drew Candi Doolin’s interest. In Spence, she saw the perfect chess piece to manipulate to learn the location of the gold from the only man who could possibly know: Mac Kindle, Rose’s bedridden father who still carried Zak’s bullet in his back. Before Spence knew it, he was being drawn into a maze of secrets, but he was no one’s chess piece. Spence Logan had a good side that extended to the Kindles. He also had a bad side that made him a dangerous man to cross, and Candi and Reg Doolin were very quickly getting there.