After a bank failure, a young man from Glasgow travels to Seattle in the Washington Territory to search for his lost love, but finds himself caught up in the city's secrets and the challenges of the Pacific Northwest.

"Only a hunted fugitive stood between a logger baron and an empire of ruined ranches! When Buck Temple got out of the Territorial death house, he headed straight back to Coppertooth Pass with vengeance in his triggers. A liar's perjured testimony had cost Buck his ranch, his friends, his girl -- and almost his life. But there was more behind that frame-up than Buck realized. It took a bushwhacker's bullet to show Buck that he was in a bigger fight...