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.
Jess is on the trail of the next man on his hunt list, Stacey Kern, when he comes across a strange custom-built and enclosed wagon. The men escorting the wagon try to hire Jess as one of their guards.
He doesn’t accept the job but it seems his travels crisscross the wagon on its way to Houston, Texas. Along the way, he encounters two other outlaws who aren’t wanted dead or alive, but are obviously interested in what’s in the wagon.
He stops the two outlaws from ambushing the wagon, but then they meet up with two other men who have some information about the wagon and what’s being transported inside it.
The four outlaws team up together and attempt another ambush. Jess shows up during the middle of the fight.
Bullets fly and men die.
Jess is back on the hunt for more wanted killers. His search for Lester Donnely takes him to the town of Tobin, where he confronts two drifters who killed one of the town locals. Then, a badly wounded man rides his horse into town. He falls unconscious and drops onto the street.
When the Kirby County sheriff shows up in Tobin, he questions Jess about his killing of the two drifters. Then, he identifies the wounded man as State Supreme Court Justice Chris Meacham.
When United States Marshal Frank Reedy hears about Meacham, he assigns Jess the task of finding the two men who ambushed the Supreme Court justice. Meacham finally comes around and describes the two ambushers in detail. Jess knows exactly who they are.
Reedy sends Bodine to help Jess capture the ambushers to bring them in alive to hang. Things get much more difficult when Jess discovers an unknown shooter is attempting to kill him.
