Nathan Benson has made a vow to track down the man who gunned down his father. Jan Raphael has made a vow to open up a new trail from Texas across Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache country to new cattle markets in the Territories. Shack Cumby has made a vow to find the daughter taken from him by the rustlers who stole her and left him for dead. As their fates converge on the western plains with all the inevitability of a thundering stampede of longhorn cattle, only one woman, Lorena Raphael, possesses the ability to reach out to each of them. And only Lorena Raphael, through her love and iron will, can halt the stampede of death and destruction that fate has in store for them. Yet, she too, must learn the limits of her powers of salvation.