"Boot Stoner spent twelve years of his life behind bars for stealing horses and rustling cattle. Upon release, he added murder and kidnapping to his criminal skills--slaughtering his own parents and abducting his "sister," a young Creek girl that his folks had adopted--before exacting revenge against the man responsible for his incarceration. U.S. Deputy Marshal John Ward is one of the West's best manhunters. He's the only one who stands a chance of stopping Stoner's bloody rampage--and of bringing the girl back alive...."--Back cover.