After ten years of wandering, during which he has lived the life of a gambler and learned the ways of devious men, Tom Keene returns home, only to find his father alone and dying. Old John Keenes sole legacy to his son is a Bible, so with his fathers passing, Tom renounces his selfish, worthless past and sets out to preach to others that the greatest happiness is born of trust in one another.
Tom is jailed for a crime he did not commit, beaten and bullied until he changes again, this time into a cunning, calculating man whose sole purpose now is to be avenged for the wrongs done to him.
