Western reporter Brady Kenton has made his living with the power of his pen--capturing the conflict and the courage of the American frontier. But there's one story that has always eluded Kenton: the truth behind his wife's purported death in a fiery train crash. Victoria Kenton's body was never found. Now, a nervous young Englishwoman has shown up in Leadville, telling Kenton's sidekick, Alex Gunnison, that she is the reporter's long-lost daughter--and that she knows Victoria's fate. But before Gunnison can bring the girl to Kenton, a Texas manhunter warns him way, calling the woman an insane killer who is spreading lies across the frontier. In a land where fact is stranger than fiction, Brady Kenton is going to have to take a chance. He is sure that the truth is close at had. And so is a killer--or two...