Tired of watching the uppity Burdick family run roughshod over the citizens of Bitter Springs, Wyoming, saloon and hotel owner Lorraine "Raine" Berry hires a gunslinger to protect the town. Unfortunately, the man she hired -- who called himself "Nat Church" after the popular dime novel hero -- is stabbed to death en route, leaving bystander Kellen Coltrane to take his place. Kellen pursues Raine's cause in a lawless land where there's no guarantee...