Out of a Union prisoner-of-war camp, Rafe had worked his way West and found his family again, all of them working one of the best horse ranches in the Arizona territory. But he soon found out there was a rotten deal afoot to swindle his folks out of their home--and that the ramrod, Spangler, was in it up to his hatbrim.Spangler was a tough man to come up against. Rafe found that out the hard way after being ambushed, beaten-up and left to die. But the tide was turned the day Rafe got his split-second' s edge.