Although content with drifting through the Western wilderness, Milo Talon falls on hard times and agrees to help in a search for a buried fortune that leads him into a confrontation with a deadly band of liars and killers.

Milo Talon takes the job of finding the twelve-years-gone granddaughter of Jefferson Henry, a man who claims to have known his father, but Milo soon finds that Henry's intentions are not what they seem.