After years of living by the gun and striving to overcome his reputation as a half-breed gunman, Jess finally found peace when he married, raised a family, and turned an abandoned remote home into a thriving ranch. Now it is all threatened by a greedy big rancher who wants all the land in the Wind Rivers for himself. Determined to get it by any means, once again gun smoke and death enter the peaceful valley.

As neighbor after neighbor lose their ranches, and some their lives, Jess struggles to fight seemingly impossible odds to hold onto the way of life he toiled so many years to win, not knowing he will soon have to deal with his painful past, and a half-brother, from a life he tried to forget, who has spent the last twenty years searching for him.