Jack James, a fourteen-year-old male prostitute at the Longhorn Saloon in the one-street cattle town of Bramblewood, Kansas, is in the wrong place at the wrong time when Frank West robs the town bank office. Jack gets captured as a hostage for Frank's getaway. Frank, who has used Jack's services before, avails himself of the same services again and again as they flee on horseback.
When Ruth, a friend of the family and a psychiatrist, offers to try hypnosis to help with young Jordan's fear of flying they figure it's worth a try. After the first session Jordan's not convinced that it was just his mind she'd been tinkering with.
Lady Mary and her entire family are victims of "The Gunpowder Plot". One of the many innocents caught up in the strife of religious warfare caused by the Reformation. She is determined to survive and secure justice from the opportunists who have destroyed her family and her heritage.