"The Coming of the Law" is a Western adventure novel. Kent Hollis arrives a day too late after his father's death. But he is soon informed of his inheritance, the one thousand acre Circle Bar Ranch, quite some livestock and an ailing newspaper. The ranch however faces stiff competition from a rival ranch group that has somehow managed to corrupt the legal system to their advantage. But Hollis decides that he will carry on the fight against them that his late father started. And fight he will, all perils not withstanding