A brutal encounter with a tough cowhand made Elton Collins a renowned gunfighter before his twentieth birthday, but it wasn't until the dime novel Hell With A Gun was written about him that he became a full-fledged legend. However, Elton Collins had no desire to be the man against whom other gunfighters chose to measure themselves. He changed his name, slipped away to his own corner of the world, and settled down to raise a family. After many years of solitude he thought he'd left his deadly past behind. But the past refused to forget him. When a deadly attack leaves his family in tatters and his daughter missing, in order to save her Elton Collins is forced to become the only man he truly feared: his former self.