The Story

Arizona, 1875, ten years after the final shot is fired in the American Civil War. A decade after a man named Lincoln placed his hat down beside him for a last time. The country is still displaying the scars of a fractured existence and the after-effects of a global financial crisis. In the White House the man formerly known as The Butcher of the North is calling for reform and pleading mercy for a once bitter foe. And deep within the southern states, rising out the dark waters of the Mississippi, a shadowy Confederate Cabal emerges, determined to set things right once again.

Into this melee, like the legendary knights of old, steps Christopher Darwin ex-lawyer, former hired gun, and ex-gambler, with a score to settle and a multitude of sins to wipe clean. Beside him stands Katherine Braddock, an opium-addicted Scottish prison nurse, and Johnny Two-Bloods, a part Cheyenne Indian Scout on the run from Custer’s Seventh Calvary. Each of them find themselves at a moral crossroad searching for some kind of redemption, some kind of payback for the hand that fate has dealt them.

And deep below the surface someone wasn’t paying attention and left the door open. What comes out no one on earth will want to face, not even Darwin.