The Sundering West - Book 1 - A Silver for the Devil
Welcome to Perdition’s Fall—a boomtown where silver veins run deep, and secrets run deeper.
The American frontier is a lie. Beyond the dust, the cattle, and the clang of the railroad, an older world hides in plain sight. It’s a world of hungers that have nothing to do with gold, and whispers that travel on wires no one can see.
Cain Hart knows those whispers. A bounty hunter with a cursed gaze and a revolver loaded for more than just men, he trades in the teeth of monsters. When a tarnished silver dollar with an unnatural sigil calls him to Perdition’s Fall, he finds a predator stalking the rail camps—one that leaves behind not just corpses, but a chilling, spiritual rot.
Lilith Valencourt is a historian of the unseen. An ancient vampire archivist dispatched to this chaotic frontier, she observes the fragile treaties between were-rangers, skin-walkers, and forgotten things. The disturbance in Perdition’s Fall is not just a local tragedy; it’s a datum in a terrifying pattern, a deliberate tear in the fabric that keeps the nightmares at bay.
Eleanor Finch believes in facts, not fairy tales. A widow running the town’s telegraph office, her world is one of schedules, click-clack codes, and pragmatic survival. But her wires are beginning to carry strange, ghostly messages. The static is forming words, and the town’s shadows are moving with a purpose she cannot explain.
As a series of gruesome, impossible murders grips the town, these three strangers are thrown together on a trail of blood and old magic. They will navigate a labyrinth of hidden alliances, ancient grudges, and their own demons. To survive, the hunter, the vampire, and the telegraph operator must learn to trust each other before a nascent evil, born of ritual and a hunger for absolute void, consumes Perdition’s Fall and opens a door that can never be closed.
A Silver for the Devil is the explosive first chapter in the Sundering West series—a visceral, epic fantasy woven into the brutal tapestry of the American Old West. It is a tale where every shot echoes, every shadow holds a history, and the price for survival is often paid in blood and damned, silver coin.