HOMECOMING SHOWDOWN Clay Bond was a drifter, a loner, a special man who lived by special rules coming home after sixteen years. He wasn't looking for trouble, but he expected it in a lawless valley that had become the one-man empire of a ruthless cattle king. He wasn't looking for a woman, either, but he found one who was hard to lose. Most of all, he wasn't looking for an early grave—but from the moment he arrived he was asking for it.