Two-Gun Witch

"Two Gun Witch is a fully loaded fantasy adventure in a darkly brutal and beautiful landscape, an unforgettable weird western."-Laura Bickle, author of the Wildlands seriesShe's got two guns loaded with magic.Will they be enough?Talen is a Stalker, a bounty hunter hired by the Marshal Service to hunt down humans stained by dark magic. She's also a two-gun witch, one of the few elven women who can wield two magical revolvers, spell irons, at once. For three years she's lived for the next bounty, and a whisper of vengeance for the destruction of her people.That changes when she takes the warrant on Margaret Jameson, a new kind of stained, one immune to the usual tools of collection. Upon finding her quarry, Talen realizes Margaret isn't stained at all, but someone worked very hard to make her appear so.The search for an answer carries the two unlikely partners from the wilds of the Great Plains to the expansive cities of post-Civil War America. There, they learn the truth is much darker than they imagined, and it could mean the death of millions, or even reshape the world itself."Two Gun Witch mashes up alt history, weird west, and steampunk for a fun romp across 19th-century America. I mean, a gunfighter elf! Dwarves! Dark magic! This book is a blast."- Beth Cato, author of Breath of Earth

Two-Gun Witch (n) – pejorative term for the few elven women who can use magical devices with both hands, most typically, spell irons.Spell Iron (n) – magical revolvers that hold components in their cylinders to shoot spells.After the slaughtering of her people, Talen collected bounties on humans stained by dark magic. For years after, she lived only for a whisper of vengeance. However, a series of unlikely events led to her finding an improbable new family. Wilfred-a former slave and master crafter of magical wares, Draven-a dwarven engineer an airship pilot, and Margaret-a child of the Underground railroad, all helped to heal her tattered heart.While searching out the origins of bounty crystals, the quartet find themselves at the doorstep of Harriet Tubman, and it seems she's been expecting them. From her, they learn of an entire town of stained, one that refuses to accept the end of slavery. Hundreds so recently freed are once more in bondage. Worse, the preacher leading this town is rumored to be enforcing this re-enslavement through detestable magical crafts. It's even said he can raise and bind the dead, depriving those poor souls of even a final peace. However slim the odds of success, they know it's a fight that needs fighting. Question is, will they be the same after learning the truth of the accursed town?