At first Luke Johnson and his ranch partner, Clay Peters, were surprised by the hostility shown them when they came to Kylie Bend, Montana, to pay their last respects to Luke’ s brother and sister-in-law, who’ d been killed in a recent stagecoach accident. Then Luke and Clay and the dead woman’s father were angered by the runaround they got when they tried to find the two graves.

But nothing—absolutely nothing—could compare to the shock that jolted the newcomers as they slowly uncovered the mystery behind the graves—and behind the strange, sick town of Kylie Bend.