Life has been hard for Eli Drake. Betrayed by his best friend, ridiculed by the woman he had hoped to marry, and sought after by the law, he is running for his life. But that was a long time ago. Twenty years, to be precise. And now a stranger arrives in town, just the day after a terrible murder, when Eli Drake is forgotten by most... But the past always seems to have a way of catching up with us, and it is no different for the people of the sleepy...