When history professor Alison Carter became a consultant to the film version of the Wild West legend she'd dedicated her career to researching, she couldn't possibly know that she would not only get a front row seat to a full-blown Hollywood circus, but that she would innocently witness something that would put her life in danger.

Despite the objections of Georgiana, his easterner wife, Cal is determined to drive Bid Hatfield, the outlaw who nearly killed him, out of the region.