Rae Del Bianco penned a well-written tale with a storyline that swung far and wide. Just over halfway through, about the time I was considering that the novel might have been better suited as a novella, the scene took a devilish twist. It was just what it needed. Actually, what I needed. The main characters were well-drawn. Into the home stretch, I was unaware of the blockbuster ending that waited ahead.

23-year-old Wyatt Smith lives with his twin sister Lucy out in the sticks in Box Elder County, Utah. Try as they might, they're barely scraping by on their small cattle farm. As if it wasn't already bad enough, it soon worsened. They're precious livestock had been attacked. Several had been shot to death. With shotgun in hand, Wyatt confronted the attacker. It turned out to be a girl. One that had been specially trained. A gunfight ensued. She fled. It was never fully explained what brought the girl to their remote farm in the first place. No reasonable explanation was suggested for her to engage in such rampage.

The murder of the livestock had been enough to sink the farm that had already been teeter tottering on the edge of bankruptcy. The assassin needed to pay with either restitution or her life. The former was preferred. The young girl gave the appearance of a runaway which did not contribute to being a dependable candidate to make restitution. It made no reason nor rhyme to chase after her. But with that said, Wyatt pursued the girl while Lucy tended to the animals and farm. It was a helluva chase. Like trying to catch the wind.

With no love lost between the two, fate would see that their paths would cross again. For Wyatt there was no turning back. Blinded by revenge, it was time to pay up or face the ultimate consequences. A shattering twist had unknowingly awaited them. They had temporarily resigned themselves to form an unholy alliance. In the midst of a drug trade, they had walked into a gangland ambush. Battled bloody and outnumbered, they watched their comrades drop one by one. Finally in the end it came down to just the two of them facing off against terrible odds. Time and bullets were running out.