It’s been two centuries since the boom of the Industrial Revolution sent the Victorian world into a devastating climatic shift, and Jo has kept to the safety of her family’s farm, desperate to forget the horrific day that took her mother and left Jo battered and broken. The marshal of Sagebrush is everywhere--he controls everything--and Jo has had to stomach the false pleasantries and knowing glint in the eyes of the man who killed her mother.
 

Just when Jo plans to expose him for what he really is, the marshal plays a card of his own—his notoriously scandalous son, Clayton. As Jo and Clayton are thrust together, lines become blurred, truths are revealed, and Jo must decide what she is willing to sacrifice in exchange for retribution.