Jeff Spencer, hired by a Texas oil dynasty to protect their teenage daughter from a fortune-hunting gigolo, must prove her innocent when she is found with his dead body.

Summoned to a friend's mountain home to help discover the reason for his daughter's strange behavior, Stu Bailey must overcome both a gang of outlaws and a man-killing animal.

A mobster's cronies put out a hit on Stu, who is the main witness against the criminal.