When Evan Maitland found out that Thomas Hicks had killed two men, he doubled his fee. Fifty thousand dollars to bring the bail jumper back to Chicago for trial. Thomas Hicks killed two men in self-defense. But for a black man with a record, he doesn't believe justice is going to prevail. He jumps bail, becomes a fugitive, and flees to western Kansas.

He isn't there long before he realizes he would have been safer in a Chicago jail. Nina Harrows come from Dallas to find her sister. She's beautiful and she's tough. But her questions make the local cops nervous. In a place of evil, in a night of terror, the hunter will become the hunted, and Maitland will need help from both the fugitive and the lady if any of them are going to survive.