Sam Running Wolf succeeded at everything he lost his life-long girlfriend to a stranger, an outsider, and interloper. Returning home from an injury- marred pro football career. Sam immersed himself in his business to forget. By the time he learned Carrie, abused by her husband, rode into the mountains to get away from it all. Her husband, an ex-Special Services Army leader, sent his Army buddied after her. From then on it was a can and mouse game to the Continental Divide. The hunters soon became the hunted.