Blood in Purgatory (Marshal of the Hollow Frontier Book 1)

After dying with a bullet through his left eye on the battlefield of Black Hollow, northern Duskland officer Caeden Holt wakes in a purgatorial frontier where the dead are tormented, old gods feed on guilt, and the lost are chained between judgment and oblivion. Armed with his lever-action rifle, revolver, and the stubbornness that carried him through war, Holt begins a brutal journey across haunted plains, drowned roads, corpse-ridden settlements, and bleeding thresholds between worlds.As he fights judges of the dead, false prophets, memory-eating houses, and powers that treat souls like ledger entries, Holt becomes something far more dangerous than a damned man trying to survive. He becomes a hinge between life and death — a force capable of closing breaches, defying ancient powers, and protecting the innocent trapped in purgatory’s machinery. But every victory deepens the mystery of the golden coin, the true nature of his death, and the unseen hand shaping his road. Read more