In 1906, the badlands of Southern Arizona Territory is a desolate place where a three-year drought has changed the landscape for all time. When Sarah's well goes dry and months pass with barely a trace of rain, Sarah feels herself losing her hold upon the land. Desperate, Sarah's mother hires a water witch, a peculiar desert wanderer named Lazrus who claims to know where to find water. As he schemes and stalls, he develops an attraction to Sarah that...

Arlo Wells and Dallas Holt think they have gotten a lucky break when they receive a message and a map from an old prospector friend who has willed them his claim on the condition they share it with his two nieces, but the ex-cowpunchers do not know they will have to take on bandits, Apaches, gunmen, and other crooks before they can get to the "easy money."