When ex-lawman Ben Lawless took a bushwhacker's bullet that almost killed him he knew the man who'd shot him and he also knew that the bushwhacker never missed: so why was Lawless still breathing? With rancher Veronica Ketchum to thank for this life, Lawless decides to return the favour and back Veronica in her battle with land-grabbing cattle-baron, Stillman J. Stadtlander.