After his older brother's mysterious death, Peyton Doves finds himself in a desperate situation. While Peyton has always honored his father's strict backwoods-take on religion, his brother's involvement with the local crime syndicate has created incredible problems. Law enforcement wants Peyton to answer for his brother's crimes and the sinister Tito Bane wants Peyton to pick up where his brother left off. With police and criminals on his trail, Peyton crosses paths with a runaway private school girl and his greatest battle yet: Love—Jim Killigan