For twelve years, four months, and six days, Jed Walker doggedly clung to one goal: kill the five owlhoots who had shot him and murdered his brother.

Only after he was nursed back to health after a second ambush did he begin to realize that his hate-filled mission came at an expensive price, years wasted from his own life.

Then, after all that time, the trail grew hot. Jed pursues two of the remaining three killers through Southeast Texas to Sabinetown where he learns the identity of the third man. The third man turns out to be the one who not only nursed him back to health, but became his friend in the meantime.

In anguish, Jed Walker stands at the crossroads of his life. How can he kill the man who saved his life?