Jed Keller came to Texas to repay a debt to his sister, killed in a fire at her ranch. But from his first day in the godforsaken little town of Cade, Jed faced mystery surrounding his sister's death, and a battle between vigilantes and a gang of cattle thieves. Somewhere in the violence Jed saw a chance to build a new life. But to do it, he had to unravel the legend of the night riders called the Old Boys, hunt down a stone-cold killer, and destroy the one man who know what really happened to Jed's sister in the blood-soaked hill country by the rolling Brazos River.