A smallpox epidemic that depopulates entire regions leaves siblings Jack and Lula orphaned overnight. When their grandfather tries to place the children with relatives, they run into Cut Throat Bill's gang. Their grandfather is murdered in cold blood, Lula is kidnapped, and Jack is left for dead. But Jack has survived—and he'll stop at nothing to get his sister back. With the help of bounty hunter Reginald Jones and his partner, the former slave Eustace, Jack embarks on a perilous journey through the inhospitable East Texas, encountering further allies along the way, such as the prostitute Jimmie Sue. The motley crew gets ever closer to the trail of Cut Throat Bill and his accomplices in the wintry wilderness, but danger and death accompany them at every turn. And all these lost souls know one thing: at the end of their journey, countless crosses will stand... New product