Buck McDivit learns he has an aunt in Deception, Texas, an overnight stop on a barely remembered landlocked waterway once plied by riverboats carrying cotton from Jefferson, Texas, to New Orleans. Buck finds a sleepy backwater town where riverboats once reigned and cotton was king. There's also the matter of a ghost, and a sunken riverboat filled with Confederate gold. Ghost of a Chance is the first in a series of modern Westerns featuring cowboy gumshoe Buck McDivit.