Jacob Brodie came to Texas in 1836. With no family left in Kentucky, he decided to stay and make his home in the new Republic after Texan independence had been won. It's 1848 and after a decade and more of battling Comanche Indians and bandits along the borders, Jacob now commands his own company of Texas Rangers. But unattached and with no family, life in Texas has been a lonely existence. The arrival in Galveston of a clipper ship from England will ultimately change Jacob's world. For on that ship is a man, an attorney, bearing important news. From this man, Jonah Kitchen, Jacob Brodie...