When recently deceased outlaw Sherman Harwood can't find his way to the afterlife, he takes it upon himself to "attend" to Deputy Marshal Vincent Hayes, a lawman investigating a brutal double murder on a settlement out on Chicken Neck Creek.As Hayes finds himself pitted against a family bent on vengeance, a city marshal with political ambitions, and a wily widow with plans of her own, Sherman (who knows a thing or two about the killings) gives us an outlaw's unique perspective on loyalty and justice, and life and death, on the Texas frontier.