Publisher's Synopsis
Sometimes a man must commit a crime twice before he can own it. Nathaniel Strange has done his prison time for murder back in Baltimore. Now he comes west to the boom town of Rhyolite, to find the man he killed. Nathaniel has lost everything and expects nothing back. He has lost his love of Annabelle. He has lost his means of earning a respectable earning, and has become a traveling tattoo artist. He goes west to find the man he killed and who in turn has destroyed him. He wishes no revenge, nor to gain what is lost. He wants only to make amends.On his way to Rhyolite, Nathaniel meets Salome Jezebel. She's a young girl who carries a gun. Nathaniel decides to call her Sally. Without planning on it, he takes her on first as employee and then as adopted ward. Sally upsets all his plans. She will save his sanity if not his life. She will show him how to draw a rattlesnake.Now travel to a time past, which haunts us yet today.
