In the blood-soaked Western badlands, the Dust Crow Raiders ride along the railways, robbing the rich with revolvers and sharing the spoils with poor ranchers and miners. Their leader is no man, but the stunning Violet Dunn—a legend with a fifty-billion bounty on her head who once gunned down twenty hired killers and walked away. Weary of killing, the nearly thirty-year-old Violet hands over command and marries Robert, a plain man who knows nothing of her past, and settles in the small town of Hope to run a ranch. Years later, their son Henry is five, but her life is far from peaceful: her mother-in-law Stella and brother-in-law Bellamy humiliate her daily, and her beauty invites slander and unwanted trouble. She endures it all to protect her secret. Then Bellamy is ambushed by the Rattlesnake gang and sold to the infamous Breakridge Mine, a living hell where fewer than twenty percent of laborers survive. To save him, Violet saddles up, takes her long-dusted revolver, and—by accident—brings her son along. Meanwhile, Grace, once close to Violet, is secretly plotting her death, and a perilous adventure unfolds across the rust-and-blood frontier.
