A drifter working as a ranch hand in East Texas must protect a widow and her young son from the ruthless criminal who is determined to destroy them. Carl Herbold is a cold-blooded psychopath who has just escaped the penitentiary where he was serving a life sentence. Bent on revenge hes going back to where he began: Blewer County Texas. Born deaf and recently widowed Anna Corbett fights to keep the ranch that is her sons birthright unaware that she is at the center of Herbolds horrific scheme -- and that her world of self-imposed isolation is about to explode . . . When drifter Jack Sawyer arrives at Annas ranch asking for work he makes it his mission to protect the innocent woman and her son from Herbolds rage. But Sawyer cant outrun the secrets that stalk him -- or the day of reckoning awaiting them all.