Carl Herbold is a cold-blooded psychopath who has just escaped the penitentiary where he was serving a life sentence. Bent on revenge hes going back to where he began--Blewer County Texas... Born deaf lately widowed Anna Corbett fights to keep the ranch that is her sons birthright unaware that she is at the center of Herbolds horrific scheme--and that her world of self-imposed isolation is about to explode... Drifter Jack Sawyer arrives at Annas ranch asking for work hoping to protect the innocent woman and her son from Herbolds rage. But Sawyer cant outrun the secrets that stalk him--or the day of reckoning awaiting them all...
