When Reason Cordell turns up missing while carrying a large sum of cash from the sale of a herd in Laramie, Cole sets out to find him. It's not like Reason to be late. The man is punctual to a fault. And Cole fears the worst. Yet when Cole locates him, wounded in a ramshackle cabin deep in the Teton Mountains, he's in for the shock of his life. For Reason's mind is shattered as well as his spirit. Every man is his enemy and he remembers no one. Cole wonders what tragic chain of events turned a cocky and confident gunslinger into an empty shell of a man. For Reason isn't talking. And Cole wonders if he ever will again. Or even if he is beyond saving. Can Cole protect Reason from further suffering? Or are the horrific memories buried too deep to cause either one of them to survive. And if so, then who will be the first to fall.