At twenty-eight, Trev Buchman decides to return to Cannon Basin and the Box B Ranch. It had been eight years since hed had it out with his father and ridden off never to return. His father had been dead for four years now and Trev wanted to see his brother, Jim. But hed come six weeks too late. According to stories hed been told in Flint Rock, seventy-five miles to the south, Jim had fallen off a holding corral fence after a dizzy spell and was trampled to death by the milling crowd of cattle inside. Theyd told him that Jim had been married for a year and a half before his death.