At first Luke Johnson and his ranch partner, Clay Peters, were surprised by the hostility shown them when they came to Kylie Bend, Montana, to pay their last respects to Luke' s brother and sister-in-law, who' d been killed in a recent stagecoach accident. Then Luke and Clay and the dead woman's father were angered by the runaround they got when they tried to find the two graves. But nothing-absolutely nothing-could compare to the shock that jolted the newcomers as they slowly uncovered the mystery behind the graves-and behind the strange, sick town of Kylie Bend.
