Jess is back on the hunt, chasing down the worst of killers and putting them in the ground. The pursuit takes him to Ellington, Texas, in search of Robert Woodson. When he arrives, he discovers that Woodson has already been killed in a gunfight with another wanted man named Steven Rupert.
Jess, hauling the dead body of Woodson behind him, goes on the search for Rupert. When he finds him, he kills him and then proceeds to take both bodies to the marshal of Hayden, Texas, to turn in for the bounties on their heads.
He continues to hunt more wanted men, which eventually takes him to the town of Danford. Here, he accidentally runs into Daniel Brown, a young man with an urgent need. Daniel is trying to send a message to the Texas Rangers and U.S. Marshals, asking for help to save his town, which has been taken over by the ruthless Ruben Clover and his gang of killers.
Jess agrees to accompany Daniel back to Townsend, Texas, to help rid the town of the Clover gang.
When they arrive, Clover and his men are gone, but not for long. They find out that as Clover departed from Townsend, he’d warned the people he was going to get more of his men and return.
Jess helps to prepare the town to fight off the gang, but he quickly learns that the tiny town is populated by religious people who don’t believe in violence and won’t take up guns to protect themselves, leaving only Jess and Daniel to fight off the gang.
When the Clover gang returns, they quickly realize that Jess isn’t a man who likes to lose.
Jess is back on the hunt for more cold-blooded killers. He first heads to Halifax, Texas, in search of Milton Bashir. After he successfully catches and kills Bashir, he’s on to the next man on his hunt list, Leonard Gish.
Meanwhile, United States Marshal Frank Reedy begins to get messages about town marshals being murdered and their badges ripped off their shirts as some sort of message.
After catching Gish, Jess takes his body to the town of Monroe, to turn in to the law there. When he arrives, he quickly discovers that their town marshal has been murdered and his badge has been ripped from his shirt.
Reedy sends a message to Jess, assigning him the task as a U.S. Marshal of finding out who’s killing town marshals and taking their badges. He’s instructed to travel to the town of Arcadia, Texas, and speak with Marshal Jake Pennington there.
When Jess finds out who’s responsible for the murders and the reason why he’s doing it, he’s torn between what he feels is right, and what he must do under the law when he’s wearing the badge.
Jess is back on the hunt for another killer, Bartholomew Thomas. The hunt takes him to the town of Morgan, where he meets two down-and-out bounty hunters, Rick and Judd. Once they find out who he is and who he’s after, they beg him to give them the wanted poster so they can finally make some money.
Jess gives them the poster of Thomas. Then he follows them to Henderson where Thomas is supposed to be. Once he arrives, he quickly discovers that things have not gone well.
The two hard-luck bounty hunters are still penniless, so they convince Jess to let Rick accompany him on the hunt for Thomas, so they can split the bounty.
During the hunt, Rick discovers a dark side of man he’d never witnessed before and has to decide about the future of bounty hunting for him and his partner, Judd.
Then, when two vicious killers, Alvin Glenn and Ron Clayton, escape from the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, Jess gets the assignment from United States Marshal Frank Reedy to find them and return them to the penitentiary to be hung.
Glenn and Clayton leave bodies along their back trail, and Rick learns some valuable lessons along the way.
Jess is back on the hunt for the next killer on his list, a vicious man by the name of Rufus Hadley. After he finds Hadley and kills him, he takes his body to the town of Madison to turn in for the bounty.
After leaving Madison, he heads to the town of Arthur in search of Tom Dutton. Dutton had already left the town of Arthur, but not before killing one of the local men there. While in Arthur, Jess meets a beautiful young woman by the name of Lindsey, and he immediately takes to her.
After catching the three Gleason brothers and putting them in their graves with the help of John Bodine and the huge wolf, Shadow, Jess finds himself on the hunt for even more ruthless killers. The hunt takes him to several towns.
When he takes the body of another killer back to the marshal in the town of Salisbury, he meets a fifteen-year-old girl whose father has been murdered by two outlaws. After discovering who the two men are, Jess tells her that he will track them down.
The next morning, when he’s ready to leave Salisbury on the hunt for the two men, he finds the girl already sitting on Sharps In the livery…and she’s not getting off no matter what he says.