When a meteor shower rains down across the American Frontier, the West will never be the same...

Rufus Brand, a rough-and-worn lawman, survives a severe case of lead poisoning from a band of outlaws when he is struck by one of the comet's cosmic energy. Now, granted a body of bulletproof lead skin, Brand uses his newfound form to protect Virgil City from the many empowered, unnatural, and unimaginable forces that blow into town. All the while, forces are at play which hope to utilize the fallen meteor's power and don't intend to let anyone stand in their way...