Black Badge Series - Book 1
Cold as Hell
A Transfer Orbit Pick of the Month
An i09 Pick of the Month's New Science Fiction & Fantasy
Winner of the IPPY Gold Medal for Best SF/Fantasy/Horror E-Book
A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week
A Locus Magazine Pick of This Week's Best New Books
Winner of the Gold Medal Readers' Favorite Award for Westerns
One of Audible’s Best Audiobooks of the Year
Longlisted for the Reading the West Book Award
An Audie Award Finalist for Best Narration in Fantasy
Finalist for the Foreword Indies Award for Fantasy
Winner of the Chanticleer International Book Award Grand Prize for Supernatural Fiction
In the West, there are worse things to fear than bandits and outlaws.
Demons. Monsters. Witches. James Crowley’s sacred duty as a Black Badge is to hunt them down and send them packing, banish them from the mortal realm for good.
He didn’t choose this life. No. He didn’t choose life at all.
Shot dead in a gunfight many years ago, now he’s stuck in purgatory, serving the whims of the White Throne to avoid falling to Hell. Not quite undead, though not alive either, the best he can hope for is to work off his penance and fade away.
This time, the White Throne has sent him to investigate a strange bank robbery in Lonely Hill. An outlaw with the ability to conjure ice has frozen and shattered open the bank vault and is now on a spree, robbing the region for all it’s worth.
In his quest to track down the ice-wielder and suss out which demon is behind granting a mortal such power, Crowley finds himself face-to-face with hellish beasts, shapeshifters, and, worse … temptation. But the truth behind the attacks is worse than he ever imagined …
The Witcher meets The Dresden Files in this weird Western series by the Audible number one bestselling duo behind Dead Acre.
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