Will Parry lost an arm in the Civil War, but he found the strenth to carry on with his life, to build a future for himself and his family on a ranch in the Wyoming Rockies. But that bright future starts to turn dark when a shadowy gunman begins shooting at Parry's house. And that's just a taste of what's to come. It isn't long before Parry learns the identity of an enemy he never knew he had, a man with a bitter grudge still festering from the war. A man with the cunning of an animal-and the cold-blooded patience of an executioner. Parry knows he'll die if he must in order to protect his family, and when he looks out into the black night he also knows a killer is waiting.