Higbee, Colorado, population 147, is booming.

A visionary named Garrison Wade is building a railroad to connect Higbee to the Santa Fe. But a family named Clinton has its own selfish reasons for making sure these bands of steel go nowhere—and they’ve brought in a ruthless killer to derail Wade’s plan . .

Falcon MacCallister owes a debt to the would-be railroad man Wade—and has a score to settle with the Clintons’ hired gunman. But Falcon knows that Higbee is going to be torn to pieces, with neighbors, families, and lovers bitterly divided. For a man who has known war and peace, the fastest way to the end of a tragedy is straight through the blood and tears—behind the light of a blazing gun . .