Ted Shepard had seen many deaths over his ten years as a bounty hunter and then as a United States Deputy Marshal, but none had come close to affecting him as much as this one. He didn't know if he could go on any longer and sunk into an almost suicidal depression. But it only took a very short visit by the one person capable of healing his emotional turmoil to get him to return to living and back on his job, before a return to his hometown of Wilmore, Kansas restored him to the same person he had been before. But the young woman who had brought him out of his morass would then need his help much more when she was charged with murder.