"When I'm gone the wolves will come out of their black holes and gang up on Hat. They'll be like a pack after a crippled antelope. " Such was the prophecy by which Nora Parrott had inherited the mighty ranch adn by which her foreman Clay Sebastian was bound. And they knew who would be the leader of the wolves--Buck DeSpain, a man whose methods were wilier than the wolf's but whose cruelty was equally ruthless. Clay knew that there would be more men dead than alive at the end of teh new range war that was on its way. The decision rested with him: his life or his land?