Sweetspring is a quiet western town until an itinerant gang of robbers causes havoc. Wesley Vernon, a twenty-four year-old mine engineer, thinks he recognizes the robbers' leader as a childhood friend and determines to bring him to justice. Before he sets off he is devastated to learn that his intended bride, Maddy, has been promised to a wealthy banker from Boston. Never could Wes have imagined how his moral courage would be tested as he faces gun battles, bank raids, a prison breakout and coming face-to-face with his childhood friend, and then incredibly with Maddy's suitor. Further complications ensue with a chance meeting with Alice, a devious beauty, who plays a dangerous game of her own.

Having been brought up on Westerns, Frank Chandler has written three BHWs. Visiting the western states of the USA a couple of times every year he hadn't appreciated the Wild West life until riding horses up and down rugged terrain and being deafened by firing live ammunition. At other times he lives peacefully on the south Devon coast as a writer, artist and dealer in antiques.