When a Texas badman winds up on the wrong side of the bullet, Lucius Dodge and the black-haired angel who saved his life find themselves with a bounty on their heads. They can either stay put and wait for death-or fight back....

There is always a price...and it's paid in blood.

Eli Gault was raised by a merciless, drunken fire-and-brimstone preacher-until he avenged himself upon his pious father. And that was only the beginning of his rage.

Because when Eli meets Cutter Sharpe-a legendary mankiller and expert gunhand-the pair starts shooting their way across Texas, leaving a trail of blood and bodies behind them. But Eli is about to learn that there's a line a man shouldn't cross, because there's no going back-there's only hell to pay....

Deputy U.S. Marshal Hayden Tilden has the task of hunting down his friend—manhunter John Henry Slate—a man more vicious than any outlaw he has ever faced....