"Fourteen-year-old Connor Mack dreams of a life adventure while stuck plowing, doing all the chores, and being treated as a slave on the half barren family spread in East Texas. He plans to one day flee the beatings delivered by his hulking older brothers and lazy pa. But he knows if he does, he must take his twin sister Abby-who is not always right in the head-with him. He gets his chance when River Hicks, a man wanted for the murder of a policeman in Fort Worth, rides in with a pack of bounty hunters on his trail. When the gun smoke clears, Connor has killed men for the first time, but he also knows this is his and Abby's time to escape their life of abuse. Knowing the law will soon be on their heels, they follow Hicks-an outlaw driven by his own demons, and by deep secrets which somehow involve the Mack twins. Conner has a lot of learning and growing up to do...and he has to stay alive to do it"--,Provided by publisher.