COLD AS HELL
BLACK BADGE BOOK 1
2023 AUDIE NOMINEE FOR BEST FANTASY AUDIOBOOK. Audible Best of 2022.
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 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.
VEIN PURSUITS
BLACK BADGE BOOK 2
The path to Heaven runs through miles of icy Hell...
James Crowley has ridden the road to Crescent City before, but never with companions like these. Never with a woman whose very presence jeopardizes everything he’s fought for over the past two decades.
The swamps are a brutal, nasty place filled with creatures most people think only exist in nightmares and fever dreams. When Crowley, along with Rosa, Bram Stoker, Harker, and Irish stumble upon such a creature, and one of their party finds themselves mortally wounded, they must find help in the most unlikely of places.
But that wasn’t James Crowley’s mission. As a Black Badge, a Hand of God, he’s been tasked with hunting down the worst Hell has to offer, and at Shargrafein’s beckoning, he must suss out the Betrayer—a mysterious being about whom no information is given.
What he finds is something he never could have guessed. The city is overrun with vampires, werewolves, and worse, including an old acquaintance with nothing good in mind.
Meanwhile, Rosa has continued her pursuit to reconnect with her dead husband, Willy Massey. With the help of a Voodoo Queen, she must do the unthinkable. Only Crowley stands between her and a choice that would forever scar her soul. But will he be able to escape the clutches of Hell in order to keep her from destroying everything and everyone in her path?
With the question of right and wrong always nagging at Crowley’s undead heart, he must decide where his loyalties lie in this pulse-pounding sequel to the hit Cold as Hell. 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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DEAD ACRE
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WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER, AUDIBLE #1
Award-winning voice actor Roger Clark, the man behind Red Dead Redemption 2’s Arthur Morgan, brings you a world of rugged outlaws, dark magic, and plenty of six-shooters. The Witcher meets the Dresden Files set in the Wild West in this guns-blazing Weird Western by a number-one Audible bestselling duo.
James Crowley met his mortal end in the West in a hail of gunfire.
Now, he finds himself in purgatory, serving 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 servitude and fade away.
His not-so-sacred duty as a Hand of God? Use his new abilities to hunt down demonic beings that have infiltrated the mortal realm.
This time, the White Throne has sent him to the middle of nowhere: a western town called Dead Acre with a saloon, a moldy church, and little else worth talking about. There isn’t even a sheriff. However, a local cobbler has turned up missing at the same time as a number of graves were desecrated.
Crowley must follow the clues, all while dealing with a cutthroat gang who treats Dead Acre like they own it, an extraordinary woman who makes it hard to focus, and locals not keen on sharing the truth with strangers.
What really happened to the cobbler and the upturned graves? What sort of evil being haunts this sad little town. Life isn’t simple for a Hand of God.
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WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING ABOUT THE BLACK BADGE SERIES?
"Bruno and Castle...kick off a new collaboration in impressive style; their fantasy-western series debut blends its two genres perfectly and offers enough worldbuilding to sustain many sequels...A gritty romp sure to please fans of Jim Butcher and Mike Carey."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A badass supernatural western...It's like the Witcher goes to Tombstone."
—Larry Correia, New York Times bestselling author of Monster Hunter International
The rich mystical elements feel every bit as authentic to the west as the gunslinging and grit, all of which deftly bring the characters and setting to life"
— Shirtaloon, Top 10 Amazon charts bestselling author of He Who Fights with Monsters
"Gunslingers and demons, shootouts and monsters, cowboys and the supernatural--Cold as Hell is an imaginative, fun, and exciting novel."
—Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Dune: House Atreides
Jaime Castle is the Washington Post, #1 Audible Bestselling author of The Luna Missile Crisis, The Buried Goddess Saga—which includes the IPPY award-winning Web of Eyes—and more. Hailing from the great nation of Texas, he lives with his wife and two children and enjoys anything creative. Castle co-hosts Keystroke Medium, a popular podcast devoted to reading, writing, and everything in between. His office looks as if Marvel and DC vomited on his walls and he refuses to clean it up.
Rhett C. Bruno is the USA Today and Audible #1 Bestselling Author of The Circuit Saga, Children of Titan Series, The Buried Goddess Saga, and The Luna Missile Crisis; among other works. Dead Acre is his Weird Western debut. He was nominated for a Nebula award for his short story, Interview at the End of the World. After leaving his job as an architect, Rhett helped found Aethon Books and is currently a full-time author/publisher living in Delaware with his wife, daughter, and dog Raven.
Roger Clark is an award-winning actor and narrator of almost 100 audiobooks. Born in New Jersey, raised in Ireland, and trained in the UK, Clark is best known for providing the full performance capture for Arthur Morgan, the lead character in Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption II. Having extensive experience in theatre, voice, film, television, and audiobooks, he has worked in over 40 countries. Roger now lives in Connecticut with his beautiful wife and two sons.
