Jeb is the Sheriff of Black Hawk County, a gunfighter hired by those rich and powerful in the counties main industrial center, the city of Dry Well. The new job is going well, although the paperwork is a tedium that is now to him. But it also has new perks, which he discovers on his first night of employment. After a few months Jeb gets a call from his boss instructing him to head out to the old gold mine. There has been some kind of disturbance and Jeb needs to look into it, his boss tells him, and he should be ready for bandits. Jeb heads out to the mine and gets into it with the bandits, who greatly outnumber him. Will romance and love bud out of this chance encounter in the desert? Or will everything be swept away by the twister?