Brock and Pat were raised together since boyhood, and for the past ten years they saved their money to buy a ranch. Now Pat is dead, dragged by his horse--and Brock is sure it was murder. He comes to the mining town of Weston, Colorado, looking for answers and finds too many--and a pack of trouble besides. First he finds that Pat had been working undercover for the railroad. Then he learns that a hundred-thousand-dollar gold shipment has been stolen. It seems that the more he learns, the harder it is to make sense of it all. But he has to make sense of it fast if he wants to stay alive.