At 22, Missouri mule drover Shep Daniels knew practically everything about land, horses, and the ways of men. Then came a woman named Julie - and with her the wildfire violence of a blood feud. Roger Ashland, the son of a wealthy landowner- and the man responsible for the death of Shep’s father - was a loner with the bite of a cobra and the anger of a man the world had betrayed. Now the hunt was on - the hunt for one man for another. Shep knew what his only course could be: to stalk, to find, to kill - or be killed.