Publisher's Synopsis
Johnny Holland as a young man was already feared for his prowess with a gun. Thus, causing trouble where lives were lost. Holland left Texas and headed East to cool off and to get an education-leaving behind his family's cattle ranch and a bride to be.Three years later, on his train ride home, forces try to delay and even prevent his return to the town of Perdition. The town lies in the shadow of the Palo Pinto Mountains.Perdition was a paradise for cattle-and hell for cattlemen as it was in the middle of a horrible drought. The only water source for the cattle ran through the Holland's spread.Even Johnny Holland, who'd sworn he'd stick upon his return, was ready to pull up stakes and ride away from the drygulch death he knew awaited him there. But that was before Lydia Chase, blue-eyed daughter of the devil-himself, lured him down a lost trail and showed him the strange treasure buried among the coyotes' bones
