Martin Carver is an army man home on leave for a couple of weeks。 His parents had died several years before。 While helping his neighbor, Irving Chambers, Martin had to kill a couple of horse rustlers, while another one, Ellis, escaped。 He seemed to do that a lot in this book。 As retaliation, Ellis kidnaps Chamber’s wife, Jane and daughter Alice。 Martin is sweet on Alice and takes this personally。 The rest of this adventure focuses on getting them back。 Very worth the read!