Six years later, his old friend, Sheriff Seth Bowlen, in Sisters, Colorado, needs help and sends a wire to United States Marshal Billy French in Santa Fe, who in turn sends Deputy Marshal Wade Garrison.
Innocently Wade takes his wife, Sarah, and son with him to visit her family in Harper, a small town northeast of Sisters. As they innocently board the train in Santa Fe, a terrible storm of violence is already brewing in Harper that could destroy his wife and child.