Lingo Barnes was heading into Durango, Colorado when he stumbled upon what he thought was a stagecoach robbery, but was in fact a kidnapping. He trailed the badmen to their camp and rescued Emily Lou Colter, whose father and brother own a mine in the area, but she lost contact with them.Leaving Emily in the care of his partner on his ranch in a well-protected valley, Lingo rides into Durango hoping hers"ll find her family but fearing the worst. The men who kidnapped her are still at large and obviously after the Coltersrs" claim. But Lingo has placed himself in the line of fire, and hers"s not a man to be trifled with.