When gold-mining legend Ed O’Neil asks his longtime friend Clint Adams for a favor, the Gunsmith can’t help but accept. Clint is charged with escorting Bride Shaughnessy—O’Neil’s young intended—and her sister Bridget safely to O’Neil’s gold mine in Shasta County, California. But this favor proves to be cursed by the luck of the Irish.
As the trio departs from New York City, two mysterious men follow in their wake. Out to claim Clint’s fiery-haired Shaughnessy cargo, the duo will stop at nothing to get what they want, even if it means taking on the legendary Gunsmith…
So Clint is asked to escort two girls from Ireland to a waiting husband. Sounds like an easy task, except with Clint Adams, nothing is easy. When you have the reputation of the Gunsmith everyone wants to kill you for a reputation of their own.
The action takes place about 2/3's into the book. And the mystery of the story doesn't really pan out til the very end and then it leaves you hanging.