They had grown up together - he gunslinger and the banker's wife. Now they were at a crossroads. An innocent man was going to hang for something that had happened long ago in a dusty barn on the edge of the prairie. Al Cobb hadn't been much of a good Samaritan in his life: honor and a hired gun don't ride well together. But he chose to go to the gallows holding on to a secret that could save his life - ll to protect a woman he couldn't have. The law had done its duty, so why would the most influential man on the frontier want to rush Al Cobb's execution?