When Sheriff Cotton Burke finds Thorn McCann nearly dead from a gunshot, he becomes entangled in the affairs of the notorious bounty hunter. Then someone else from his past bursts into his life. Cotton isn?t proud of the men he?s killed, but he sleeps well at night knowing that he did what was necessary to preserve justice. Judge Arthur Sanborn, the father of one of them, seems to disagree, and he?s out for blood.