Linus Sutton, a detective for the O.K. Detective Agency?s Denver office, is hired by the family of a man they haven?t heard from in years. The man?s family is in the East and fear that he has come to a violent end in the West. Sutton goes undercover as a drifter looking for work with the most prominent rancher in the area?Will Laughlin. When he is refused a job, circumstances find Sutton working for the small rancher Frances Osmond, after defending her ramrod in a bar fight against Laughlin?s ramrod. It turns out that rustlers are attempting to steal Miss Osmond?s cattle and dissuade her from selling them. She and her ranch are in debt, a debt that Laughlin hopes to pay off and collect her land.
When a mysterious phantom rider helps out Miss Osmond?s cattle drive, Sutton knows that this is no supernatural being but the answer to the mystery he was hired to solve. The only question is will Linus Sutton survive a brutal cattle drive, a range war, and the ghosts of Frances Osmond?s past?
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