Beckett, an ex-cowboy turned mountain man, is no hero. He doesn't even carry a gun. The northern Idaho Territory gold rush has not only brought settlers and miners to his mountain, it's also brought outlaws and killers and he wants no part of it. On his bi-yearly supply trip to Temperance, Beckett witnesses a local miner horrifically gunned down by a sheriff's deputy. He comes to find that a ruthless businessman has appointed himself sheriff and is holding the town captive, acquiring their gold claims along the Coeur d'Alene river. When the sheriff's men threaten to destroy him and the people...

Embrey Denman is a desperate man. After a harrowing journey across Montana Territory with his family, he makes a hasty stop in a depraved mining town in search of protection and turns to the first and only qualified man for the job-a gunfighter called Cincinnati. Three thousand dollars and a handshake later, Embrey and his family are back on the road to Missoula led by a man who he will soon discover is one of the deadliest alive. During their first stop, Embrey's daughter-a beautiful and intelligent young woman named Lizzy-begins to admire their new gun-toting guardian and quickly realizes...