As time is running out, Deputy Micah Benson uses whatever method is at his disposal to wrangle the whereabouts of the three captives out of the one kidnapper he had caught. It not a pretty sight and the outlaw may never be the same whether he hangs or not. Several miles away, the outlaw undersheriff from over Horseshoe Bend way is about to get some bad new. It's the kind of news no one wants to hear.