Elijah, the titular Lonesome Rider, had come to New York to settle accounts. Instead, he found a family lost to time and memory. But neither he nor his newfound sister Miss Lyle, the Pinkerton agent, were able to confront the one responsible for all their woes: their father, Senator Dawson, who has now gone to ground deep inside a forest that belongs to Cromley, a feared cultist. To get that family reunion they want, the two will have to face the devil himself!