In all his years of bounty hunting, not one injury could rival the pain Lou Prophet felt when he thought he'd lost his old partner, Louisa Bonaventure. Now that he's rescued her from the brink of death in Mexico, they're seeking a fresh start in Juniper, Wyoming, which had one been called Helldorado before Lou's friend, "Hell-Bringin" Hiram Severin, cleaned it up. Or thought he had.