Jess is on the hunt for another wanton killer by the name of Ben Ritchy. Along the way, he meets Texas Ranger Hatch Heller, who’s also looking for Ritchy because he killed Heller’s younger brother. Jess helps him catch Ritchy and lets him take him back to the town of Mason to fulfill the promise he made to his mother, who wants to personally watch him hang.
After that, Jess ends up in the town of Curtis, where he witnesses some drunken cowpunchers almost trample a young woman and her little daughter as they ride their horses fast into town.
When dealing with them, he discovers they work for a man by the name of Ed Bunch, a rich man who made his fortune in oil. Bunch sends two of his hired guns to Curtis to run Jess out of town, not knowing who he really is.
Jess kills them both and pins his Deputy United States Marshal’s badge on and decides to enforce the law in Curtis. Bunch takes the action of pushing back and hires more guns. He quickly learns it was a mistake.
Then Jess receives news that Ritchy murdered Ranger Heller and is on the loose again. Jess goes back on the hunt for Ritchy and ends up getting help from two of his good friends, Wildcat and John Bodine.
With their help, Jess is hell-bent on seeing that Heller’s promise to his mother is fulfilled, one way or another.
Ruby Taft was living a peaceful life with her husband Sam. But that was all upended by the four outlaws her husband had stolen money from, a secret past he’d kept from her.
After they killed Sam, they put Ruby through hell. They beat her to the brink of death and left her to die in her home. What Sam and the outlaws didn’t know was that Ruby also had a secret past.
Jess is hot on the trail for more wanted killers. While in Corbin, Texas, he meets a woman gunslinger with a deadly right hand. After Jess hears her whole story, including her past life as a pistol competitor and gunslinger in the Northwest Territories of Canada, he decides to help her pursue the men who murdered her husband.
Ruby’s real name is Emma Bouchard, and it seems that Emma can be just as ruthless and deadly as the four men who ruined her peaceful life. Now, with Jess’s help in finding the four men, she will exact her revenge or die trying.
Jess is on the hunt for Griff Euler. Along the way, he meets a man by the name of Mace Lovitt. Unsure if he’s a threat or not, he contacts his friend, Deputy United States Marshal Frank Reedy, to find out.
He learns that Lovitt is a former Texas Ranger on the hunt for the two men who murdered his wife. He helps Lovitt track down the men responsible, but the task isn’t easy. They fled to Mexico after the murder. Jess has to figure out how to make them come back across the border to Texas. He finds a way, but he must risk his life to get it done.
As difficult as that task was, Jess receives a wire from Wildcat, the female bounty hunter out of New Mexico Territory. She has chased a vicious killer all the way from the territory into Texas, but has lost his trail and needs help locating him.
They team up again and go on the hunt for her prey. Wildcat has made some new enemies in Texas, and they’re determined to stop her.
Jess left Ellie Mae back in Reedsville and was now heading to the town of Hampton, Texas, where the next man on his hunt list, Walt Goodell, had last been seen. He keeps thinking about Marsh Prewitt, the strange man he’d met before leaving Reedsville.
While in Hampton, he runs into a beautiful woman by the name of Delilah. She’s an extraordinary singer from the East, who wants to see what the West is like. He also runs into Marsh Prewitt again, the man who says he’s the one who can kill him, yet he never tries.
Soon Jess discovers that Delilah, the daughter of a very wealthy businessman, has been kidnapped by four men and is being held for a large ransom.
Her father, Horatio, disagrees with Jess on how to get his daughter back. Jess decides to go after the outlaws who took her anyway.
Marsh Prewitt keeps showing up wherever Jess goes, and he doesn’t like it. He’s not sure if Prewitt is there to help or hinder him.