Presented here for the first time in book form, with the full text and original title restored, is the continuing saga of Max Brand's finest heroine, Jack - Jacqueline Boone. Jack is blessed and cursed by the cross of Meilan when she meets Dix Van Dyck. He eventually runs afoul of the new sheriff, whose brother Dix had justifiably strangled with his bare hands. Repairing to the distant back-country hellhole of Double Bend, Dix finds out just how much trouble Jack Boone will bring him.