A relentless lone rider with strange powers is hunting a sadistic criminal and the powerful men that protect him and use him to start a devastating war in the United States. The first volume of a Western with supernatural overtones. Kansas, 1861. As tensions rise between the Northern and Southern states, a fanatical, violent preacher leaves a trail of corpses behind him, all the while calling people to take up arms against pro-slavery states. Close on his tail is a lone rider with a strange gift: he can read the past and future of those he touches. In the small town of Holton, a showdown is brewing, but things aren’t as straightforward as they seem …

True to his word, Mayor Harper has brought in a Marshall to get rid of ‘Lonesome’, thrown in jail by a repentant sheriff. But it takes more than that to stop the lone rider in his quest for revenge, and he is soon back on the trail of Markham, the mad preacher. When a band of Ruffians – pro-slavery vigilantes and sworn enemies of Markham – intercept our hero, an unexpected encounter will provide him with an opportunity to learn more about the mysterious figures pulling all the strings …

Markham, the murderous preacher, is dead at last. And yet, for the lone rider who tracked and killed him, the hunt goes on. Now he must find who was behind the preacher’s campaign of terror. He has a name – Senator Dawson of New York. But getting to his quarry won’t be easy; the man is powerful, rich, engaged in a conspiracy against the government of the United States … and that’s not even considering any other … less natural abilities he might possess …

Elijah, the titular Lonesome Rider, had come to New York to settle accounts. Instead, he found a family lost to time and memory. But neither he nor his newfound sister Miss Lyle, the Pinkerton agent, were able to confront the one responsible for all their woes: their father, Senator Dawson, who has now gone to ground deep inside a forest that belongs to Cromley, a feared cultist. To get that family reunion they want, the two will have to face the devil himself!