Town Marshal Turner Whitsett went after a man who'd robbed the stage and brought him back dead - or so he thought. But the money pouch containing soldiers' pay was nowhere in sight, and then Doc Nash told Whit that the outlaw wasn't killed by Whit or his posse - he was shot in the back of the head, most likely by an accomplice. Whit now had to find the money and a cold-blooded murderer. And that was just the beginning of a long string of events that would take Whit to the adobe hut of an old goat-herder in the desert to witness the death of the killer - and where Marshal Whitsett would fall in love with the killer's sister!