After having a very relaxing time in Stratton, Jess is back on the hunt for the next killer on his list, Ben Slater. The hunt takes him to the town of Seaton.
Before he reaches his destination, he finds a man shot and left for dead out on the trail. The man explains that he and his brother had robbed a trading post and killed the couple who ran it. He dies shortly after Jess finds him.
When Jess arrives in the town of Seaton, he confronts the man’s brother and kills him. While there, he gets a lead on the possible location of Slater and heads for the little village of Hampton.
He finds Ben Slater hiding in a friend’s house in Hampton. He gives Slater a head start to prevent anyone in the village from getting hurt, but Slater decides to finally end it. Instead of running, he stops and waits for Jess to catch him.
After taking Slater’s body to the marshal in Kensington, Texas, he sets off on the hunt for John Cooper, a ruthless killer who set fire to a home in Charleston, killing a mother and four children.
The hunt for Cooper becomes troublesome. The husband and father of the four children, Mickey Hart, is hell-bent on killing Cooper himself…his way.
Jess and John Bodine have finished cleaning up Frankfurt, ridding the town of Eddie Pickett and his gang, and Jess is back on the hunt for Dave Nutter.
After finally catching up with Nutter, he heads along a trail that would take him to Stratton, Texas, for a much-needed rest. Along the way, he takes Nutter’s body to the town of Raleigh to turn in to the marshal there for the bounty.
When he arrives, he discovers that the marshal, Houston Goodheart, has been beaten severely by two brothers, Larry and Danny Neal. Goodheart begs Jess to track down the two brothers and bring them back to his jail while he recuperates.
He catches the Neal brothers and locks them up in the jail in Raleigh, but then two of their friends show up in town and cause trouble. Jess is delayed even further dealing with them.
Just when he thinks he’ll be able to continue his travel to Stratton and his long-awaited rest, life seems to throw more obstacles in his way, one by one.
He begins to wonder if he’ll ever make it to Stratton.
Jess leaves Townsend, Texas, and heads to Sycamore in search of the next man on his hunt list, a killer by the name of Dan Fletcher, but Fletcher isn’t there. While in Sycamore, he runs into two troublemakers who’ve wreaked havoc on the town. They end up challenging Jess and he kills them both.
He befriends a woman, Belinda, who owns and runs the hotel in Sycamore with the help of a young boy by the name of Jamie. He helps the two of them.
He finds out that the two troublemakers worked for a rich cattle rancher by the name of Claude Benson, a man with a bad attitude and enough money to always get his way. Benson comes into town and confronts Jess, but Jess has dealt with men like him before.
After finding Fletcher in the town of Hillsdale, he takes the body to the town of Holland to turn in for the bounty. He receives a message that Benson has caused more trouble because of what Jess had done.
He returns to Sycamore and confronts Benson, giving him a stern warning, but Benson is a man used to getting his way all the time. Benson hires men to kill Jess. The battle between Jess and Benson begins…and Jess is not a man who likes to lose.