"Like any gunslinger with a bloodstained past, Jon Gage needs to keep moving to stay alive. Too many people know the legend of "Texas Lightning"-and too many people want him dead. Trying to keep a low profile, he stops at a supply post in Utah Territory to stock up before hitting the trail. There, he meets a wagon train of farmers from Kansas doing the same. They seem like good, decent folks, but they're about to make a very bad decision. The route they've chosen leads straight through the Chosen Valley. Which is like walking through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. . . . Ruled by a shadowy group of renegades-rumored to inflict cruel and unusual punishments-the Chosen Valley is worse than a dead end. It's a trap. Especially for the wagon train, who are easy targets in a brutal ambush by black-clad fiends who plan to kill the farmers, steal their supplies, and force their children into slave labor. Alerted by the gunshots, Gage is quick to try to help the hapless travelers. He is not about to let them be killed and enslaved-even if he has to take on the entire gang himself. Every one of them has a gun. But none of them are as fast-or as deadly-as Texas Lightning. . . ."--