They burned her house. They took my brother and sister. But retribution will overtake them.

The timid Southerner hoped to leave her bloody past behind and ride away with a smile on her face, but she will have to remember the old ways in order to bring her family back. But she is not the kind of woman who backs down in the face of difficulties. She sets off in pursuit in the company of a pair of oxen and her cowardly adoptive father, the Lamb, but it turns out that the Lamb himself was fleeing from an equally bloody past. But in the lawless Far Country, you can't hide from your past.

Their journey will take them through lifeless prairies and a frontier town gripped by gold rushes, feuds, duels and murders, and send them high into the uncharted mountains to meet with Ghosts. Worse, they will have to form an alliance with the notorious soldier of fortune Nicomo Koska and his irresponsible lawyer Temple - two of the least trustworthy people in the world.