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Alternate History Books
Against the Day
Against the Tide of Years
Age of Tolerance
Agent of Byzantium
Almost America
Alternate Americas
Alternate Empires
Alternate Generals
Alternate Generals II
Alternate Generals III
Alternate Gettysburgs
Alternate Heroes
Alternate Kennedys
Alternate Outlaws
Alternate Presidents
Alternate Skiffy
Alternate Tyrants
Alternate Warriors
Alternate Wars
American Empire: Blood and Iron
American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold
American Empire: The Victorious Opposition
American Indian Victories
Anno Dracula
Anti-Ice
Anvil of Necessity
Apacheria
Aztec Century
Back in the USSA
Battle of the Bulge
The Best Alternate History Stories
The Big One
Black Powder War
Bloody Red Baron
A Book of Alternate Worlds
Bring the Jubilee
Britannia's Fist
Budspy
The Burning Mountain
By Any Other Fame
Camelot Revisited
A Change of Regime
Children of Apollo
The Children's War
Clash of Eagles
Cold War Hot
Collaborator
Colonization: Aftershocks
Colonization: Down to Earth
Colonization: Second Contact
The Company of the Dead
The Confederate States of America
Conquistador
Counterclockwise
Cracken at Critical
The Crystal Empire
A Dangerous Energy
A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Days of Infamy
Death is Lighter Than a Feather
Departures
Designated Targets
Desperate Times
The Difference Engine
A Different Flesh
Disaster at D-Day
A Disturbance of Fate
Dixie Victorious
The Domination
Dragon America
Drakas!
Drakon
El Sombra
Empire of Fear
Empire of Ivory
End of the Beginning
Farthing
Fatherland
Fiends of the Eastern Front
Fiends of the Rising Sun
Final Impact
For Want of a Nail
The Foresight War
Fox at the Front
Fox on the Rhine
From The Heart Of The Storm
Gettysburg
Gettysburg: An Alternate History
The Ghosts of Antietam
Grant Comes East
Grantville Gazette
Grantville Gazette II
Grantville Gazette III
Grantville Gazette IV
The Great Game
Great War: American Front
Great War: Breakthroughs
Great War: Walk in Hell
Guns of the South
The Hammer and the Cross
Hannibal's Children
Ha'penny
His Majesty's Dragon
History Revisited
Hitler Options
Hitler Triumphant
Hitler Victorious
Homeward Bound
How Few Remain
The Human Front
Human Nature
If Hitler Had Won
If It Had Happened Otherwise
If The South Had Won The Civil War
In the Courts of the Crimson Kings
In the Morning
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Invasion
Invasion!
The Iron Dream
Iron Maiden
Island in the Sea of Time
Judgment of Tears
K
Lee At Chattanooga
Lest Darkness Fall
Leviathan Rising
The Lion is Humbled
Lion's Blood
The Lion's Way
Luftwaffe Victorious
MacArthur's War
Making History
The Man in the High Castle
The Man With the Iron Heart
Marching Through Georgia
McGwire the Pitcher
Midas Sheffield & Co.
Ministry of Space
Moon of Ice
A More Perfect Union
More What If?
The Moscow Option
Naked Presidents
The Napoleon Options
Never Call Retreat
New Zealand As It Might Have Been
A Nomad of the Time Streams
On the Oceans of Eternity
One Lamp
Operation Lucifer
The Other Teddy Roosevelts
Pacific Empire
Pavane
Pearl Harbor
The Peshawar Lancers
Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas
The Plot Against America
President Gore
Prime Minister Portillo...
The Probability Broach
The Proteus Operation
A Rebel In Time
Rebel Nation
Red Sun
Resurrection Day
Return to Eden
Revisions
Ring of Fire
Ring of Fire II
Rising Sun Victorious
Roads Not Taken
Ruled Britannia
Russian Amerika
The Separation
Settling Accounts: Drive to the East
Settling Accounts: The Grapple
Settling Accounts: In at the Death
Settling Accounts: Return Engagement
Severed Wing
The Shadow of the Storm
The Sky People
The Sound of His Horn
Spirit of Thunder
SS-GB
Stars and Stripes Forever
Stars and Stripes In Peril
Stars and Stripes Triumphant
The Stone Dogs
Things Unborn
Third Reich Victorious
Throne of Jade
Through the Night
To Bring the Light
The Tranquility Alternative
A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!
The Trinity Paradox
Triumph
Triumph of the Third Reich
The Two Georges
The Ultimate Solution
Under the Yoke
Unmaking the West
Unnatural History
Virtual History
Voyage
The Way It Wasn't
Weapons of Choice
West of Eden
What If?
What If? 2
What If? Australian History...
What If The Babe
What Ifs? Of American History
What Might Have Been
What Might Have Been: Vol 1
What Might Have Been: Vol 2
What Might Have Been: Vol 3
What Might Have Been: Vol 4
Winter in Eden
A World of Difference
Worlds of the Imperium
Worldwar: In the Balance
Worldwar: Striking the Balance
Worldwar: Tilting the Balance
Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance
The Year the Cloud Fell
The Years of Rice and Salt
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Zulu Heart
1632
1633
1634: The Baltic War
1634: The Bavarian Crisis
1634: The Galileo Affair
1634: The Ram Rebellion
1635: Cannon Law
1635: The Dreeson Incident
1812: The Rivers War
1824: The Arkansas War
1862
1864
1901
1942: A Novel
1945
1945: A Novel
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Alternate History Books
Alternate History Books
Welcome to Alternate History Books, the site about
alternate history
and counterfactuals.
Ever wanted to know what might have happened if history had turned
out differently?
On this web site, we review books about
alternate history - events
that might have been that weren't.
- Some of the books contain serious historical studies of what might have
been if leaders of the past had made different decisions or luck had
not influenced historical events in a particular way.
- Other books that we look at, include novels or short stories
- sometimes these books involve realistic changes to history that could have
happened, but didn't - whereas in other cases, they involve
fantastic elements such as time travel or
travel between parallel worlds,
dinosaurs or even
or vampires.
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By Steven W. White
Steven W. White
Released: 2011-03-16
Kindle Edition (308 pages)
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Shy amateur historian Randy Sullivan, age 23 and unhappy with his life, is approached by his double from a parallel Los Angeles, a bombastic physicist and inventor who calls himself "Sully." Using a form of sideways time travel, they step out of this reality and visit versions of Earth stranger than Randy has ever imagined... and those so eerily close as to be just out of reach.
But all is not well back home. Randy's out-of-control adolescent brother and sister are left in the care of his cool-headed and gorgeous neighbor Penelope - the love of Randy's life. They are stranded by encroaching California wildfires. The flames are drawing near and time is running out.
And Sully, genius and connoisseur of a thousand worlds, has a secret plan of his own - and it does not involve Randy Sullivan ever getting home alive. |
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By Steven W. White
Steven W. White
Released: 2011-03-16
Kindle Edition (308 pages)
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Shy amateur historian Randy Sullivan, age 23 and unhappy with his life, is approached by his double from a parallel Los Angeles, a bombastic physicist and inventor who calls himself "Sully." Using a form of sideways time travel, they step out of this reality and visit versions of Earth stranger than Randy has ever imagined... and those so eerily close as to be just out of reach.
But all is not well back home. Randy's out-of-control adolescent brother and sister are left in the care of his cool-headed and gorgeous neighbor Penelope - the love of Randy's life. They are stranded by encroaching California wildfires. The flames are drawing near and time is running out.
And Sully, genius and connoisseur of a thousand worlds, has a secret plan of his own - and it does not involve Randy Sullivan ever getting home alive. |
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By Aaron Worthing
Released: 2012-01-12
Kindle Edition (320 pages)
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On September 11, 2001, a businessman faced a grim choice. Perched on the ninety-third floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, he had to choose between dying in the fire rising around him, or jumping. He chose to jump.
In our world he died, one of around three thousand to die that day.
In the alternate world where Archangel takes place, someone was there to catch him. A fireman, wearing a mask, leapt out of a window in the tower and with no visible means of propulsion, the fireman flew after him. The fireman caught the man and brought him down to a soft, controlled landing, live on national television. A real-life superhero had made his national debut.
This is that superhero's story.
But this isn't a fairy tale. Around a thousand people still died in the vicious attack. However, this fireman was able rescue many people from the top of the burning towers. And when he saw the South Tower begin to fall, he caught it using only his mind and set it down safely in Central Park. Finally, he tried to stop Flight 93 from crashing, but in his effort to save the plane it ripped apart, and only a handful were saved.
So in that day of mourning, there was joy and also a question: who was this fireman?
Archangel follows the story of this fireman, from his childhood in the Philippines to his debut as a superhero on September 11. Filled with action and suspense, laughter and tears, international intrigue and romance, this novel provides an unflinchingly realistic portrayal of a what a superhero would really look like in our modern world and how that world would respond. |
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By Aaron Worthing
Released: 2012-01-12
Kindle Edition (320 pages)
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On September 11, 2001, a businessman faced a grim choice. Perched on the ninety-third floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, he had to choose between dying in the fire rising around him, or jumping. He chose to jump.
In our world he died, one of around three thousand to die that day.
In the alternate world where Archangel takes place, someone was there to catch him. A fireman, wearing a mask, leapt out of a window in the tower and with no visible means of propulsion, the fireman flew after him. The fireman caught the man and brought him down to a soft, controlled landing, live on national television. A real-life superhero had made his national debut.
This is that superhero's story.
But this isn't a fairy tale. Around a thousand people still died in the vicious attack. However, this fireman was able rescue many people from the top of the burning towers. And when he saw the South Tower begin to fall, he caught it using only his mind and set it down safely in Central Park. Finally, he tried to stop Flight 93 from crashing, but in his effort to save the plane it ripped apart, and only a handful were saved.
So in that day of mourning, there was joy and also a question: who was this fireman?
Archangel follows the story of this fireman, from his childhood in the Philippines to his debut as a superhero on September 11. Filled with action and suspense, laughter and tears, international intrigue and romance, this novel provides an unflinchingly realistic portrayal of a what a superhero would really look like in our modern world and how that world would respond. |
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By L.I. Albemont
Released: 2011-06-26
Kindle Edition (169 pages)
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A small mountain town is isolated by a snowstorm as an ancient evil, gone pandemic, turns the residents into the living dead. Almost overnight the town becomes a snowy tomb of the roaming, hungry infected. Stranded by the weather, hiding, a small group of survivors follows the progress of the disease as society around them and around the world begins to break down. Determined to escape, they find that the normal rules of civilization don’t apply anymore. Will they be able to adapt to this strange, hungry new world?
FROM AMAZON REVIEWS:
"Wonderful! Really, this is first rate. I enjoyed the zombie story, the excitement, real life drama and the historical "stuff" all intertwined. It is not your typical zombie book in that there was a lot more to all the running, gore and zombie brains. Not that I don't love all that but it really makes it much more interesting with a bit more depth. I was not thrilled with the ending but it was A-Typical which was pretty cool in itself. Wish the book would never have ended."
“TERRIFIC READ…Very, very good zombie/end of the world story. Well worth your time. One that I think about after -- a story that sticks with you. Really liked it.”
"A real surprise. I'm a fan of the genre but found that most of the new books I've read re-hash old materials, never exploring new ground. This was different and pleasingly so. The author gave depth to characters, invented historical clues to the plague and kept the pace moving quickly. My only negative comment would be the author introduced some plot points that could have been expanded greatly because there was still a lot of fertile ground. Like another reader, I was sorry it ended."
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By L.I. Albemont
Released: 2011-06-26
Kindle Edition (169 pages)
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A small mountain town is isolated by a snowstorm as an ancient evil, gone pandemic, turns the residents into the living dead. Almost overnight the town becomes a snowy tomb of the roaming, hungry infected. Stranded by the weather, hiding, a small group of survivors follows the progress of the disease as society around them and around the world begins to break down. Determined to escape, they find that the normal rules of civilization don’t apply anymore. Will they be able to adapt to this strange, hungry new world?
FROM AMAZON REVIEWS:
"Wonderful! Really, this is first rate. I enjoyed the zombie story, the excitement, real life drama and the historical "stuff" all intertwined. It is not your typical zombie book in that there was a lot more to all the running, gore and zombie brains. Not that I don't love all that but it really makes it much more interesting with a bit more depth. I was not thrilled with the ending but it was A-Typical which was pretty cool in itself. Wish the book would never have ended."
“TERRIFIC READ…Very, very good zombie/end of the world story. Well worth your time. One that I think about after -- a story that sticks with you. Really liked it.”
"A real surprise. I'm a fan of the genre but found that most of the new books I've read re-hash old materials, never exploring new ground. This was different and pleasingly so. The author gave depth to characters, invented historical clues to the plague and kept the pace moving quickly. My only negative comment would be the author introduced some plot points that could have been expanded greatly because there was still a lot of fertile ground. Like another reader, I was sorry it ended."
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By Jeremy Mcilroy
CreateSpace
Paperback (338 pages)
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A secret society of the world's most brilliant scientists is destroyed in a raid initiated by a corrupt government wanting new technologically advanced weapons. A lone survivor is forced to enlist the aid of family members who already believe him to have died in a plane crash many years before. Driven by the need to rescue his friends and associates from their deaths in the past, he becomes obsessed with his time travel research and builds a machine that he hopes will enable him to set things right. In the process, he discovers much more than he bargained for. |
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By Jeremy Mcilroy
CreateSpace
Paperback (338 pages)
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A secret society of the world's most brilliant scientists is destroyed in a raid initiated by a corrupt government wanting new technologically advanced weapons. A lone survivor is forced to enlist the aid of family members who already believe him to have died in a plane crash many years before. Driven by the need to rescue his friends and associates from their deaths in the past, he becomes obsessed with his time travel research and builds a machine that he hopes will enable him to set things right. In the process, he discovers much more than he bargained for. |
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By Jim Musgrave
CiC Publishing
Released: 2006-06-05
Kindle Edition (276 pages)
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(Only $2.99 for a limited time!) Jared Diamond's COLLAPSE inspired this alternate history that takes place during the Americal Civil War, and tells the story of eight people who come together after the battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. Using the money they earned by tricking the U. S. Government into buying more Monitor-class ships, they attempt to escape the war and retreat to "paradise," Easter Island. However, this paradise has been transformed by the natives into a human ecological disaster and monument to pagan fertility rights and even cannibalism. Through the inventiveness and labors of the main characters, the fanatical Bird Man cult is finally banished, but not before many people have died as a result. |
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By Jim Musgrave
CiC Publishing
Released: 2006-06-05
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(Only $2.99 for a limited time!) Jared Diamond's COLLAPSE inspired this alternate history that takes place during the Americal Civil War, and tells the story of eight people who come together after the battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. Using the money they earned by tricking the U. S. Government into buying more Monitor-class ships, they attempt to escape the war and retreat to "paradise," Easter Island. However, this paradise has been transformed by the natives into a human ecological disaster and monument to pagan fertility rights and even cannibalism. Through the inventiveness and labors of the main characters, the fanatical Bird Man cult is finally banished, but not before many people have died as a result. |
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By S. M. Stirling
Roc
Released: 2004-03-02
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A new alternate history of America from the author of The Peshawar Lancers, the bestselling novel the Chicago Sun-Times called "a pleasure to read" and Harry Turtledove hailed as "first-rate adventure all the way." 1945: An ex-marine has discovered a portal that permits him to travel between the America he knows-and a virgin America untouched by European influence. 21st century: The two realities collide... |
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By S. M. Stirling
Roc
Released: 2004-03-02
Mass Market Paperback (608 pages)
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A new alternate history of America from the author of The Peshawar Lancers, the bestselling novel the Chicago Sun-Times called "a pleasure to read" and Harry Turtledove hailed as "first-rate adventure all the way." 1945: An ex-marine has discovered a portal that permits him to travel between the America he knows-and a virgin America untouched by European influence. 21st century: The two realities collide... |
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By Harry Harrison
Del Rey
Released: 2007-12-18
Kindle Edition (369 pages)
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On November 8, 1861, a U.S. navy warship stopped a British packet and seized two Confederate emissaries on their way to England to seek backing for their cause. England responded with rage, calling for a war of vengeance. The looming crisis was defused by the peace-minded Prince Albert. But imagine how Albert's absence during this critical moment might have changed everything. For lacking Albert's calm voice of reason, Britain now seizes the opportunity to attack and conquer a crippled, war-torn America.
Ulysses S. Grant is poised for an attack that could smash open the South's defenses. In Washington, Abraham Lincoln sees a first glimmer of hope that this bloody war might soon end. But then disaster strikes: English troops have invaded from Canada. With most of the Northern troops withdrawn to fight the new enemy, General William Tecumseh Sherman and his weakened army stand alone against the Confederates. Can a divided, bloodied America defeat England, or will the United States cease to exist for all time?
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By Harry Harrison
Del Rey
Released: 2007-12-18
Kindle Edition (369 pages)
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On November 8, 1861, a U.S. navy warship stopped a British packet and seized two Confederate emissaries on their way to England to seek backing for their cause. England responded with rage, calling for a war of vengeance. The looming crisis was defused by the peace-minded Prince Albert. But imagine how Albert's absence during this critical moment might have changed everything. For lacking Albert's calm voice of reason, Britain now seizes the opportunity to attack and conquer a crippled, war-torn America.
Ulysses S. Grant is poised for an attack that could smash open the South's defenses. In Washington, Abraham Lincoln sees a first glimmer of hope that this bloody war might soon end. But then disaster strikes: English troops have invaded from Canada. With most of the Northern troops withdrawn to fight the new enemy, General William Tecumseh Sherman and his weakened army stand alone against the Confederates. Can a divided, bloodied America defeat England, or will the United States cease to exist for all time?
From the Paperback edition. |
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By Harry Turtledove
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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched an attack against U.S. naval forces stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. But what if the Japanese followed up their air assault with an invasion and occupation of Hawaii? This is the question explored by Harry Turtledove in Days of Infamy, with frightening implications. With American military forces subjugated and civilians living in fear of their conquerors, there is no one to stop the Japanese from using the islands' resources to launch an offensive against America's western coast. |
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By Harry Turtledove
Tantor Media
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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched an attack against U.S. naval forces stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. But what if the Japanese followed up their air assault with an invasion and occupation of Hawaii? This is the question explored by Harry Turtledove in Days of Infamy, with frightening implications. With American military forces subjugated and civilians living in fear of their conquerors, there is no one to stop the Japanese from using the islands' resources to launch an offensive against America's western coast. |
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By Cliff Ball
Released: 2011-12-20
Kindle Edition (159 pages)
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In this alternate history novel, what-if Ronald Reagan became President in 1976 instead and the Space Race turned out differently? He pledges to support NASA with the moon landings, and declares that a moon base would be established by 1979, followed by a Mars Base by 1989. The Soviets decide to up the ante by building something bigger.
The rest of Earth follows the original timeline, so terrorism rears its ugly head, which will forever change American politics. Iran and its attempt at taking hostages is taken care of in 1979, but a new threat emerges because of it. The new President of the United States has to pursue these enemies of the U.S. to secure America's future. We follow America's progress from Moon to Mars, along with the Teacher in Space Program, to an eventual starship mission out of the solar system, which will continue in book two. |
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By Cliff Ball
Released: 2011-12-20
Kindle Edition (159 pages)
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In this alternate history novel, what-if Ronald Reagan became President in 1976 instead and the Space Race turned out differently? He pledges to support NASA with the moon landings, and declares that a moon base would be established by 1979, followed by a Mars Base by 1989. The Soviets decide to up the ante by building something bigger.
The rest of Earth follows the original timeline, so terrorism rears its ugly head, which will forever change American politics. Iran and its attempt at taking hostages is taken care of in 1979, but a new threat emerges because of it. The new President of the United States has to pursue these enemies of the U.S. to secure America's future. We follow America's progress from Moon to Mars, along with the Teacher in Space Program, to an eventual starship mission out of the solar system, which will continue in book two. |
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By A.N. Drea
Andrea Garcia
Released: 2012-05-05
Kindle Edition (117 pages)
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The west was wilder than anyone thought.
Killian McBride is a bounty hunter with a dark secret, and an even darker past. In a country rife with conflict, he wanders the frontier in search of atonement and, perhaps, redemption.
But a dark power is rising in the west, Someone that may have answers he's sought for decades.
When his past and present collide, the fate of his soul will be decided by a shot in the dark. |
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By A.N. Drea
Andrea Garcia
Released: 2012-05-05
Kindle Edition (117 pages)
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The west was wilder than anyone thought.
Killian McBride is a bounty hunter with a dark secret, and an even darker past. In a country rife with conflict, he wanders the frontier in search of atonement and, perhaps, redemption.
But a dark power is rising in the west, Someone that may have answers he's sought for decades.
When his past and present collide, the fate of his soul will be decided by a shot in the dark. |
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