Marshal Drew Malone seeks justice on an outlaw gang preying on ranchers driving cattle up the Western Cattle Trail. Malone and ranchers Charlie, Henry, and Paul, along with Charlie's daughter, Anna, devise a plan to stop the outlaws. The difficult journey is wrought with harsh elements, attacks out of nowhere, and serious injuries to the ranchers. As Malone devises a plan to end the gang's maliciousness for good, he becomes intrigued with Anna. When the outlaw gang kidnaps her, Malone vows to do what he needs to do to bring her home safely and destroy the preying gang once and for all.

Clay Roth is an excellent marksman and a fierce vigilante. When a stagecoach is robbed heading to Virginia City and Clay's love interest, Elizabeth, is kidnapped, Clay takes it upon himself to find the gang that killed the driver, shot a passenger, and is holding Elizabeth for ransom.

Bounty Hunter Matt Carter is hot on the trail of Carl Monroe and his gang. Monroe has a big bounty on his head, and Matt intends to collect it. Unaware that someone from his past is on his trail, Matt escorts two prospectors, and a boy and his cousin, to Raton Pass.

Fifteen-year-old Joe Beck wasn’t listening as the minister eulogized his uncle but was already planning on what he would have to do as soon as they returned to the Quimby farm. He wasn’t welcome there even before his uncle had died and knew that his cousin John would soon order him to leave. While he had had a basic idea of where he would go after he left the farm, he didn’t know what he would do with the rest of his life.

"Doc" Hayes had experienced enough tragedy for several lifetimes, but he thought he had finally found his sanctuary amidst the rugged beauty of the Guadalupe mountain range. Together with his friend and business partner, Conor Byrne, a West Point graduate with a taste for adventure, Doc was the center of what he hoped would be a burgeoning frontier settlement. With the arrival of Kathleen Ryan, a young woman cloaked in secrets, unexpected trouble soon follows. And trouble often seems to have a way of begetting even more trouble.