The last thing Jason Fury wants is to lead this wagon train west to California. Hell, he just wants to head back east, where he has a real shot at a better life. But halfway across Oklahoma the wagon train is attacked by bloodthirsty Commanche, and Jedediah Fury -- the leader of the settlers, and Jason's father -- is counted among the dead. Before he knows it, Jason's leading the wagons into Arizona Territory, where the squabbling settlers decide...

It's hard country, but the pioneers of Fury (population 112) are banding together to make it home. With barren lands, blinding dust storms, drought, hostile Indians, and violent bands of cutthroat outlaws against them, death is never far away. It's enough to make Jason Fury, whose father the town is named after, ride out for San Francisco. But a fiery young redhead named Megan McDonald keeps him Arizona bound -- and just in time. Another Indian attack...