When we last saw Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, they had just put things to right in the rough-and-tumble Old West town of Resolution. It's now a year later, and Virgil has only one thing on his mind: Allie French, the woman who stole his heart from their days in Appaloosa. Even though Allie ran off with another man, Virgil is determined to find her. With his deputy and partner Everett Hitch at his side, he discovers Allie in a small-town brothel.

"Hitch and Cole are the most memorable Western heroes since Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize'winning novel Lonesome Dove introduced us to Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call... Parker's prose is at its very best." - Associated Press