They burned her home.They stole her brother and sister.But vengeance is following.ShySouth hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'llhave to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she'snot a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuitwith only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old step father Lamb forcompany. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own. Andout in the lawless Far Country the past never stays buried.Theirjourney will take them across the barren plains to a frontier towngripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into theunmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. Even worse, it willforce them into an alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier offortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever haveto trust…