When bounty hunter Leo Guild agrees to help the sheriff of Danton, persuaded, in part, by the appeal of the lovely, blue-eyed Annie, he discovers that the powerful Cord family controls the town down to the last nail.

When bounty hunter Leo Guild fails to protect an old nemesis from assassination, he takes up a search for the killer and finds a fear-struck town run by the outlaw, Kriker, and filled with horrors that reawakened his own past

Leo Guild wanted work—riding shotgun on the last stagecoach lines was coming to an end, and he needed money fast. When offered a simple job of finding a missing prizefighter, how could he refuse? Although Guild hates boxing, thinking it nothing more than a blood game, jobs were few and far between. So he took it. Guild quickly finds the missing fighter holed up in the home of this girlfriend—and finds a lot more trouble than he asks for. Now Guild finds himself taking even a greater dislike of fighters, promoters, and fans of the Blood Game.

In a small-time river town, Leo Guild hears that his runaway wife Sarah is looking for him. A mysterious stranger has invited his wife's lover, gunfighter Frank Evans, to his ranch for a chance to win $10,000 in a gunfight. Sarah wants Leo to stop the fight and bring Frank back to her alive. Leo reluctantly agrees, but will he honor Sarah's request or his own feelings for revenge?