Lancer is a well educated, straight shooting, honest gun-for-hire in the American West of the 1880's. He's a good guy, a respecter of women and a man with a mysterious past. Living in Tombstone he mixes well with the real life characters of the day including Wyatt Earp. A crime solving hero with a sweet tooth, he takes on a missing persons case in Prescott, Arizona, in this, first-in-a-series tale of adventure and greed.