The action-packed fourth book in the exciting "Timber: United States Marshal" western series! Wilde's Prairie is a ghost town when U.S. Marshal Jake Timber rides in. Turns out, two gangs of brothers, recently escaped from the penitentiary, are holding all the townspeople hostage on a local farm as they try to encourage the bank vault combination from the bank manager, using unsavory means to do so. Timber, in combination with a feisty young lady named Abby, throw a bit of a wrench into the brothers' plans. Will the outlaws learn the combination and ride off into the sunset with the loot? Or will they meet justice instead?