Rafe Caradec was a man who always rode at the ready, hardened by life spent among ruthless men who played for the highest stakes. The only thing he held sacred was his word, and now he has sworn to a dying man that he would save his Long Valley Ranch for his wife and daughter ann. But ann thought he was moving in a crooked gain, and played right into the deadly hands of the greedy ranchers, plotting to destroy her. Then he figured a way to save her and the land. It would be dangerous, but that was the only way he knew