During the frigid Wyoming winter of 1887, the infamous killer Langdon Dorsey awaits the noose in the suffocating confines of the Wyoming Territorial Prison. Although convicted of multiple murders, Dorsey is adamant in proclaiming his innocence.But there can be no doubt that the body count began to rise from the moment that Dorsey arrived in the frontier mining town of Badwater, falsely claiming to be a Baptist minister. Could Dorsey really be the psychopathic killer he is reputed to be? Or could the guilty party be his beautiful young partner in crime, the seductress he has grudgingly fallen in love with? Or might the killer be the brutal gunman that has returned from Dorsey's past to haunt him once again?A silver-tongued con man impersonating a man of the cloth...A stunning young beauty turned grifter...A frontier town where human life is valued almost not at all...And a gospel unlike any the townsfolk had ever heard before...