small town, dark heart

An epic tale of the battle between good and evil in all its many guises.

 

A long way from anywhere, on a road going to nowhere, sits a town surrounded by a sea of grass and vast, turbulent skies. It’s seems a peaceable, prosperous little place in a world that is slowly falling apart, but below the surface dark forces are at work…

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Amos has spent thirteen years drifting from town to town in search of his wife’s killers, taking gold and giving lead as his life reduced to nothing more than the pursuit of vengeance. Doing whatever dark work needed to be done in order to keep moving towards the horizon and the next rock the men he hunts may have slithered under. A broken man with a fast gun and a gift for seeing souls he arrives in the remote town of Hawker’s Drift expecting only to replenish his supplies and rest his head for a few days.

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Instead, he meets Molly McCrea a hard-drinking, foul-mouthed young widow who has just buried the husband she never loved and wants nothing but to leave the strange little town of Hawker’s Drift. But her husband owed money to the town’s Mayor and he wants it back, one way or another. She finds herself increasingly drawn to the strange, brooding gunslinger who offers her the only chance of escape.

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Both Amos and Molly are drawn into the web weaved through the lives of the town's inhabitants by its urbane and mysterious Mayor; a man prepared to make a deal for your heart's desire and, maybe, for your very soul.

Welcome to Hawker’s Drift, a town where nothing is quite as it seems.

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A grand saga filled with colourful characters, dark secrets and broken lives that builds remorselessly to a shattering conclusion.