Clara Bronson is starting to settle in as the new Sheriff of Copperhead, a gritty mining town on a backwater planet. But her simple date with the local schoolteacher quickly turns into a violent confrontation with a gang of outlaws looking for revenge.

Tracy Lawless is still a man caught between a history of violence and his own conscience. And now the worst bad guy in the world is tasked with a new job: solving a series of murders of untouchable crime lords.