A former Union soldier's Spanish wife, a beautiful maiden, is strapped to a cross and drug through the dirt into a cold white prison by a gunslinger for a team of Sheriffs that by God know this Diabla murdered her man. Guilty until proven to have confessed, a brutal interrogation begins, but the fire is hot in the former prostitute that calls herself a whore. Word of her imprisonment spreads to a battalion of Union soldiers that gathers at the prison. An Apache princess claims to own the Spanish maiden; and therefore, her life. Hundreds of Apache warriors and their slaves surround the fort after hearing of the woman's capture. The gunslinger on top off the nearby cliffs waits in the wings with his arsenal plotting his choices of action. A tense negotiation begins on the life of the alluring Spanish maiden. It's Live. Or Die. But maybe, just maybe, with enough dirt-grit and rattlesnake spit, raging hate and deafening death...Somebody will get out alive.
—Stephan Pacheco