After a hard night with his sometime lover Louisa Bonaventure - the "Vengeance Queen" - Lou Prophet decides to cook his heels at a local honky tonk. Things heat up fast when he defends one of the girls from a sadistic brute who also happens to be the deputy sheriff. And now Prophet is running for his life... With a bounty on his head and heading south of the border to Mexico, Prophet isn't the only man marked for death. The young red-headed pisolero Colter Farrow has made an awful lot of enemies, too - and now practically every bounty hunter south of the Rio Grande is gunning for blood. For money. For fun. And, now, for Lou Prophet...