Jacob Merriweather and his wife Marie have established thriving businesses in a growing town in California - hers as the proprietor of The Silversmith Hotel and his as the owner of a law firm. They have three children, two girls and a boy. Many years before, Jacob was a gunman, but he has put all that behind him ¿ or so he thinks! Then he receives a series of threatening letters and the past comes back to haunt him, and he has to take down his Colt .44 and strap on his gunbelt ¿ But is he as capable as he was?