Rated by most as the finest trail scout in Northwest Texas, Steve Walker would guide anybody any place they wanted to go in the vast wilderness of the badlands - except one. He never spoke of the party he'd taken into the forbidding twisted hills region, said by some to home a haunted a secret place called Quivira - City of Gold. All they knew was that job had cost him his girl, his reputation and his peace of mind - but not his courage. Then came Rogan with the offer he could not refuse, and so agreed to escort the rich man's party to Quivira - for a price. It wasn't enough. Steve walker realised this too late when he found himself with nothing but his guns and grit to pit himself against the outlaw hellions of the badlands and the ghosts of the past.