Daeva, known to common folk as Fades, Boogeymen, or simply Shadows, haunt the West, wild lands still outside the grasp of civilization. Shae Winter is a Sentinel, part-protector, part-killer, trained from youth to hunt the shades and monsters of the West. Along with her mentor, a harsh but honest man named Coffey, she seeks to rid her world of the creatures that stole her childhood. But can she eliminate the unearthly presence of the sinister Daeva, when their very existence is a constant, shameful reminder of her greatest failure?

My name is Wilson Geiger, and I’ve been writing off and on since I was a naive twelve-year-old. Forty-three years later, I’ve finally decided to take this writing thing seriously. Better late than never, right?

I’ve had the story of Shae Winter in my head for the past couple of years. I’m still not sure exactly where the idea came from, but I do remember the writing exercise where that first glimpse of the Veil jumped at me. Soon after that came the mysterious flintlocks and the Old West world of shades and demons, powerful natives and the hunters that struggled to keep the shadow world at bay.

400 pages later, it just makes sense to see what fans of weird westerns think about my story. I would love to get any sort of feedback, both good and bad, so that I can make this the kind of novel that sticks with people after they’ve read it.