Upon their arrival in Flat Oak for a semi-centennial celebration, renowned shootist Mance Dixon and his friend Clabe run into a surviving victim of a vicious vigilante group known as The Tramplers. Offering her protection once in town, matters become complicated when a con artist posing as a mythologic killer lends his services to a large cattle baron heading the hired killers. After further run-ins with a demented family and a trio of scalphunter brothers, all roads lead back to Flat Oak for an inevitable massacre that will forever alter the fate of the once-peaceful town.

A Mexican-American public defense attorney and his poet cousin living in San Francisco suffer with depression against the threatening backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Five interlocking stories set in San Francisco. The triumphs and tragedies of people dealing with life's difficulties and discoveries set against this beautiful city in the first quarter of the 21st Century.