He supposed it was just bad luck, but when Gus Matthews rode out of the Rocking C where he’d spent the last six years, he couldn’t see much future for him. He was closing in on forty years old and had all of three hundred and some odd dollars to his name, his horse, saddle and his two guns. It wasn’t much for all the work he’d done, and just when he thought his life couldn’t go any further downhill, he spotted that worthless Lou Feldman riding to catch up and join him. He could not in his wildest dreams imagine the problems Lou would create for him over the next few weeks or the other extraordinary events that would shape the rest of his life.