An impoverished childhood on the streets helped Cash McLendon hone an instinct for self-preservation. Now, as son-in-law and heir apparent to industrial mogul Rupert Douglass, his life lacks passion, but seems securely set. When tragedy strikes, and his future dissolves in an instant. McLendon flees Saint Louis, heading to the mining town of Glorious in the Arizona territory. There he hopes to reconcile with an old flame and discover a new way of life at the edge of the final American frontier. But he can't outrun his past forever....