A Texas rancher family confronts the deadly forces of both man and nature in this Western saga by the USA Today-bestselling authors. After a two-year drought, the Kerrigan ranch is dry as a bone and as dusty as a honky-tonk bible. On the brink of ruin, Kate is desperate enough to try anything. She even hires a rainmaker-Professor Somerset Lazarus-who promises salvation in the form of a deluge. But when four angry gunmen show up, ready to lynch the phony rainmaker for swindling them out of their money, the Kerrigans have to choose sides fast-before the bullets start to fly. It doesn't take a divining rod to figure out that these unsatisfied customers want more than a refund. They have their sites set on the Kerrigan ranch. And it's just a matter of time until it's raining bullets . . .