At Heaven's Gate

Not much heavenly occurs in the Murdock family. Both Sue and Hammond, Bogan Murdock's offspring, are resentful and bitter towards their father, though they take it out in opposite manners. Ham works for his father's investment company; Sue quits university to ride horses in the open fields of her fathers' land, yet only to leave and live on her own in town. Gerald Calhoun and Slim Sarret are both in love with Sue, at different and intermingling times, only to be rejected for yet another.

Each of these persons has a complicated history and falls into the rut of self-knowledge from which they must find a way to climb or else sink forever. In between, though out of sight of the circle of Murdocks, is the story of Ashby Wyndham. Ashby is the uneducated poor man who is destined to carry the torch for all, but must first suffer personal hardships to see that light at the end of the tunnel.