"It was a lawless land. A different time and different place than what most people had become used to when they lived in the eastern societies, but desperate men had come west seeking fortunes to build a new life. The civil war had destroyed homes, families, most everything they knew, and now, determined to build a new life, they came west in droves. The lure of riches in the gold field fueled their lust, their determination to succeed dimmed their morals, their commitment to become rich became the overbearing drive for everything they did or tried. It was into this melee of madness that Eli McCain rode, committed to a search for his deserter sons to fulfill a covenant, a promise, to his recently departed wife. He came from years serving as an officer in the western forts and the front lines of the bloodiest war that man had known on the shores of the new land. But that was behind him, now he was bound for the gold fields of Montana territory, the new strikes in Last Chance Gulch that were said to be the richest yet and the possibility for riches had lured his sons west. But this was a lawless land, sheriffs turned the other way, vigilantes rose up to bring some semblance of law and order, and into this rode a man whose life had always been committed to do right and to stand for right no matter the cause or cost. But he must put the search for his sons first, or could he? When the devil's crowd were painting the land with the blood of innocents, could he stand aside? Or would he take a stand? TAGLINE: A lawless land is no match for a man bound by a covenant.."-- Provided by publisher.
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