Gil Ryan rode into the little mountain town of Larkspur just ahead of a raging late-winter blizzard. He had no way of knowing the surrounding Ensillado Basin was about to be plunged into a range war, or that the man who murdered his brother the previous fall was there. Forced into a war he doesn't want, Gil assembles a ragtag army of reluctant townspeople and local homesteaders and sets out to bring order to the town of Larkspur. But there's more...

"When a decades-old feud between a wealthy plantation owner named Watson and a mixed-blood Chickasaw family explodes in violence, Elijah Two-Buck finds himself homeless and on the run. Locating his brother, the infamous Kid Jace, and his gang of cattle rustlers, Lige reluctantly joins the band of thieves. But when a Watson-led raid on the Two-Buck family farm results in the loss of innocent lives and the law refuses to intervene, the brothers realize...