"No vengeance is more deadly than that of a grief-stricken woman whose husband has been violently killed. In the case of Louella Snow, her grief was intensified by the briefness of her marriage to Luke. And her determination to make his killer pay was in no way lessened by the fact that it was a woman, Nina Telfors, whom she held responsible for Luke's death. Lou Winters, a newcomer to Concho Valley, had his own reasons for cutting into the vengeance pie, the main one being that the man hanged for rustling along with Luke was a friend of Lou's. Therefore he formed an alliance with Louella, and agreed to do the gunslinging for the partnership. A dramatic tale of ranchers and rustlers and the women who encouraged them both."--