A ranch hand with a dream. A muleskinner with a vision. A tale of the earliest efforts of America's black community to free itself of the shackles of slavery. Their quest for freedom, for a life beyond what their ancestors even dared to dream of.

"Burneyville is a typical farming community in West Central Texas, where people for the most part mind their own business..." Church on Sundays, dust devils, the routine of farming and livestock, and the occasional Sunday dinner at The Greasy Spoon. Ryan Masters and his good friend Sheriff "Gas" Gasteell, a transplanted full blood Navajo Indian, work together, along with the rest of the citizens, to keep Burneyville safe from dangerous felons. Or so they thought. Ryan is a civic-minded construction worker and licensed architect. Gas has definite thoughts concerning his and everyone else's...