Life on the ranch lands of Montana comes with more than its share of trouble. The cowboys who work this untamed stretch of the American West expect it - and some of them even enjoy it. One of them is Mike Wire, a former homicide detective. Mike is soon to learn murder and mayhem can happen under Montana's big skies. The badlands aren't home to just horses, cattle, cowboys, and cowgirls. Beneath the earth lie enough dinosaur fossils to fill several museum collections - and make a fortune for whoever claims them first. Soon Mike will have to combine everything he learned as a cop with everything he knows as a cowboy to protect the people and the land he could never live without.