Florence Finch Kelly, whose life spanned 80 years over the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, was an American journalist and book reviewer besides being a published author. She is little known now, but was very popular during her lifetime, writing novels inspired by events she covered as a journalist. This story is about revenge and opens in New Mexico with the visit of Bancroft and his daughter Lucy to Conrad, a rancher settled there, who is the central character in this tale.