A gripping tale of revenge in the old West ... two beautiful women on opposing sides of a furious range war, and Cullom Blaine, a man out to avenge one of the last of his wife's killers. More than two years of relentless stalking had brought Blaine from Texas to California and Antelope Valley, where a severe drought had transformed this once-fertile land into a powder keg - threatened not only by the danger of fire which Blaine had sensed, but by the equally explosive and mindless fury of a range war. Cullom Blaine knew his killer was disguised among the hired hands of one of the feuding parties. And Blaine knew that sooner or later he would smoke him out. But what he didn't know was that as the hostilities between the groups became stronger, Blaine would find himself caught in the middle, and the sure target for at least one bullet.