Heroes are a dime a dozen… Longarm the hero of a dime Western novel? Why, the very idea is preposterous! Yet the lovely Delia Wilson, aka novelist Dakota Walker, wants to use the lawman's past-and current-exploits as fodder for her fiction. Longarm scoffs at her nonsense, but Delia can be very persuasive… When Longarm heads to Reno in pursuit of a marshal's kidnapped daughter, Delia is right by his side to get the story firsthand. As a twisted tale of murder, thievery, opium addiction, sex slavery, and greed unfurls, Longarm just hopes he can deliver a happy ending…