"Marianne Lomax stands to inherit a huge silver claim-- as soon as she gets past a few problems. Thieves are after the claim, the assay office has burned down, and the only copy of the deed is hidden. John Slocum has problems of his own-- trying to explain a corpse he was unwittingly transporting to Tombstone. But when his former lover Marianne asks for help, he takes on the claim jumpers. And when her son befriends a headstrong young man named Billy McCarty, Slocum steps in to straighten the kid out" -- from publisher's web site.