Sheriff Ben Stillman finds himself in the unenviable
position of having to arrest a young man for murder on suspicious evidence.
But the cards are stacked against the young firebrand who
calls himself Johnny Nevada. One, Johnny has gotten Judge Hoagland’s daughter
pregnant, shaming and enraging Hoagland himself. Two, Johnny warned Dave Bliss
he was going to kill him because Bliss ordered Johnny to stay away from Bliss’s
daughter, Sarah, whom the young Casanova was also sparking. Johnny made the warning
public and two weeks later Bliss was dead.
Now Stillman has Johnny locked up in his jail at the
courthouse. The judge wants to try the boy pronto and won’t recuse himself though
under the circumstances Stillman knows he should.
The young man’s luck is about to get even worse when unknown
men ambush Stillman and try to kill the kid in the courthouse cellblock.
Knowing that Johnny Nevada will hang at the very least, or get filled full of
lead before he can hang at the very
worst, Stillman sees no option but to bust the kid out of his own jail.
With the help of a beautiful and mysterious young woman,
Stillman hides Johnny away in a cabin in the Rattlesnake Hills. Now maybe Stillman
can get to the bottom of the mystery of who killed Dave Bliss before the
hideout is discovered by the enraged judge’s vigilante posse...or the legendary
Snake Woman, who supposedly haunts the hills, comes stalking.
Meanwhile, a bank robbery in Clantick interrupts the wedding
of Doctor Clyde Evans and Katherine Kemmett, giving the roguish doctor just
enough time to reconsider his affection for not only bachelorhood but the
pretty young waitress, Evelyn Vincent.
As
we've come to expect from Peter Brandvold, king of the fast-action, sexy,
hard-hitting western novel, it's all here -- love and death, bullets and blood
. . .
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