Description

In every waking moment, U.S. Deputy Marshal Dan Casey is haunted by the flames... and the laughter. It has been twelve years since outlaws killed his parents and sister and left him for dead in that cellar. Only one man in Rawhide knew that young Dan Cassidy had survived the attack, and now Will Shanks is dead, too. Dan is left with a stone-cold trail, and a past he cannot forget. All he has left to go on is the letter Will sent him shortly before his death; Dan prays it will be enough. When Dan returns to Rawhide, no one recognizes him-and that suits him just fine. The good citizens of Rawhide are eager to help him clean up the town, and newspaper publisher Sid Creighton-along with his lovely niece, Virginia-agrees to help Dan flush out his family's killers. But Sid's efforts soon get him killed as well. How much more blood will be spilled before these outlaws are finally brought to justice?