Dodge City was a businessman's dream. And a cattle drive north-with thousands of unbranded longhorns and a remuda of stolen Mexican horses-was a dream of Texans like Dan Ember, who;d come home from the war to find a rich man's hired guns living on his land. Now Dan and his neighbors will risk everything on a drive across the Llano. Along the way, two bands of killers are the gunsligers Clay Allison will come to a draw, and Quanah Parker's Comanches will try to thwart them-in a bold adventure fueled by the courage to face death and the pride to keep going... and the knowledge that there would be no turning back.