Slade Teplin was said to have killed sixteen men, and he was not yet thirty. Today Teplin was returning home. The little town of Cottonwood Springs wasn't preparing a friendly reception. They waited and wondered – why was Slade coming back after all these years? Was he really going to get Johnny Yoder for trying to win the love of Slade's estranged wife - the woman Slade rejected but would not give up to anyone else? One thing was certain. Before Slade left town, he was bound to kill again!