Jake Marlow is a soldier of fortune, a gambler and a loner. Jake never got close to anyone or made friends, but that all changed one night when he was shanghaied. Jake promised a dying man, Charlie Reams, that he would save his daughter Lori and her ranch. Bob Crates is a hard man driven by greed. Crates has plans of establishing an outlaw kingdom. Crates already wiped out one ranch under the pretense of a cattle war. Crates also is a handsome man gifted with a silver tongue. The townspeople like him and those who don't, fear him. There's one ranch he needs to make him a wealthy man; the L-C, Lori Reams' ranch. Crates wants Lori's ranch and the gold that is hidden on it, but there is one person standing in his way; Jake Marlow. Now Crates wants something more than the gold. Crates wants Jake dead.