Another gritty, gun-slinging entry in the New York Times-bestselling series, featuring itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch.

Territorial Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back in Appaloosa, where their work enforcing regulations continues to be exceptionally calm. All that’s about to switch. An ominous storm rolls in, and along with it a music group of evening riders with a devious scheme, who show up in the Rio Blanco camp, where a three-hundred-foot bridge can be under construction.

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Appaloosa’s Sheriff Sledge Driskill and his deputies are the initial to respond, but as the surprise grows more dangerous, news of difficulties at the bridge escalate as well as the Sheriff and his deputies go missing.

Virgil and Everett saddle up to type things away but before they do the hard taking in, Beauregard Beauchamp arrives in Appaloosa along with his Theatrical Extravaganza troupe and the promise of the greatest in lively entertainment west of the Mississippi. Using the troupe comes a lovely and incomprehensible fortune-teller who is set on conserving Everett from imminent but indefinable risk.

The trouble at the bridge, the missing lawmen, the new arrivals, and Everett’s shoot-out in front of Hal’s Café aren’t the only things on Cole and Hitch’s plate as a gang of unsavory soldiers ease into town having a shady alibi, shadier intentions, and a soon-to-be-discovered wake of destruction.

As clouds more than Appaloosa continue to gather, things obtain much even worse for Cole and Hitch…