Kate Kingshott and her Klamath Indian friend, Pakuna, have spent the past years on the vengeance trail looking to settle a score with her family's murderers. As they travel the Oregon Territory, they discover a horrifically beaten and abused woman, laying in the road, all but dead. The woman survives, but she's uncertain what happened and concerned her wealthy, banker husband must be worried sick. Not so. Cyrus Campbell, her husband, has been seduced taken in by the new sheriff of Mirror Pond, Katrina Toms. A lusty new sheriff who side-stepped into the role after the suspicious murder of her husband and successful gold miner, Sheriff Thomas Toms. Her web grows as Katrina morphs from an elegant lady from the east coast to a vicious killer who has surrounded herself with men capable of shooting their own mothers for a dollar. Katrina has bigger plans for the town, herself and her hired killers, but not until after she disposes of a few more wives and husbands to acquire their wealth. Working to help the battered Bethany Campbell, Kate and Pakuna also get caught in the web, but before long weave one of their own.