Lou Prophet is accompanying his sometime partner, sometime lover Louisa Bonaventure to Seven Devils, Arizona. She's chosen to give up bounty hunting and settle down - and wants Prophet to join her. Although flattered by the offer, he isn't willing to retire his guns. But Louisa's dreams are shattered when they arrive at the scorched earth that was once Seven Devils - and the graves of her cousin's family. The notorious Three of a Kind Gang had paid...

Lou Prophet doesn't mind being close to his pretty pistol-packing partner, Louisa Bonaventure. Known as the Vengeance Queen, she has his back - and part of his heart. But accompanying the vile outlaw Blanco Metalious back to Nugget Town to see him hang isn't Lou's idea of a good time. Then a young girl claiming amnesia after being caught in the crossfire during Blanco's capture joins their posse - and her ease on the trails belies her innocence......

While on the run from Rurales in Mexico, Lou Prophet stops at the familiar desert town of Chisos Springs. Except now it's called Moon's Well, and it's being controlled by the scoundrel Mordecai Moon, who even charges people for water. Lou Prophet won't stand for such shady business, but he's never made an enemy like this. And when Mordecai has Lou beaten and sends him into the blazing desert tied over his horse, matters go from bad to personal.

After defending a girl at a local honky tonk from a sadistic brute who happens to be the deputy sheriff, Lou Prophet has a bounty on his head and is running for his life with Colter Farrow, someone else with a bounty on his head.