His family gone, Thorne leaves the ranch, wanting only to die. He is about to meet an old enemy and a new love. Bill Fitch is a brutal rapist and serial killer, who carries the hair of his victims on his bridle, and rides into Texas with murder and mayhem on his mind. Gomez is the half-breed who rides with Fitch and lives to rape and eat the flesh of his victims. Shorty Doddredge is the ranger sergeant, saved by Thorne in an Indian fight, a lonely man, who is about to meet the love of his life. Axel Glass is a trafficker in whiskey, guns and slaves, who has made a sexual slave of his lovely daughter, Juliette. Mollie Doddredge, the sister of Shorty, is beautiful, fiery, sultry, and the master of her world, until she meets Thorne. Fitch has seen Mollie and now he has come back for her.