Dodge City was a businessman's dream. And a cattle drive north with thousands of unbranded longhorns and a remuda of stolen Mexican horses was a dream of Texans like Dan Ember, who'd come home from the war to find a rich man's hired guns living on his land. Now Dan and his neighbours would risk everything on a drive across the Llano. Along the way, two bands of killers would fight over them, the gunslinger Clay Allison would join up with them, and Quanah Parker's Comanches would try to thwart them in a bold adventure fueled by the courage to face death, the pride to keep going, and the knowledge that now, there was no turning back.