The year is 1881, and the place is the Arizona Territory. When a rancher and his wife are savagely murdered by a mysterious legendary killer known as Malachai Logan, a fiend who is stalking the American Southwest, Wade Bannock, a notorious gunman who had disappeared some twelve years before, is lured out of seclusion by his estranged sister to hunt down the monster who slaughtered her daughter and husband. And there was an eyewitness, Etta Taylor, a 17-year old girl, and the only person who knows what Malachai Logan looks like. Over a period of weeks and months, they are joined by Billy Caulder, a young gun always on the prowl for trouble, and his older and wiser sidekick, Clevis Wolf, the savvy Marshal Teach Conley, and another young gun, Jim Tanna. This mixed band determinedly follows the bloody trail of this terrifying killer in an effort to stop him at all cost......and the cost will be high.