Captain Nathan Talbot lost just about everything in the late Civil War, including his self-respect and his honour. But he had begun to think that his days of notoriety were over, hislife in a quiet backwater unremarked until an unexpected bequest brought him to the Saville ranch, to a family in deep trouble. But they were a family who had already suffered a crippling loss because of Nathan Talbot and it seemed only a matter of time before they found out who he really was. And the closer Talbot gets to the truth about who is trying to destroy Saville, the closer he comes to his own personal reckoning.