While Molly tries to find the man who murdered their parents five years earlier, Priest McClaren tries to run a little store with his partner, Lamarr, an ex-slave and ex-Union soldier, but when a wealthy landowner begins harassing them and Molly is forced to give up on the hunt, Priest must take over and make these dangerous men pay for their sins. Original.

The Bram Stoker Award-winning horror novelist turns his talent to a sweeping saga of the Old West in this novel about a man who leaves behind his quiet life as a coffin-builder to save his former lover's new husband who is being held hostage in Mexico. Priest McClaren wants to put his past behind him. It's a past filled with loss, murder . . . and revenge. Now all Priest wants is to own a carpentry shop and earn a quiet living building coffins. But it looks like peace and quiet just aren't in Priest's future. His ex-lover has pleaded with him to carry ransom money into hostile territory in Mexico, to rescue her new husband. It's a mission he can't refuse, but it could also easily get him killed. Especially when he runs afoul of Don Braulio, a bandit with a great fondness for knives. . .