An aging cop must journey inside the fractured mind of a killer in order to find a missing girl and put an end to a growing body count. No one is safe and things may not be as they appear in this dark tale of murder, mystery, and betrayal.
I’m enjoying the story so far. I’m interested enough to keep reading about Eldon. However, this inconsistency of using "them" and "’em" is jarring. I understand your use of the vernacular but it might work best if ’em appears in dialog only and not in the narrative. Just a thought.
I couldn’t leave them in a winter like this, not with these maniacs ravaging about—especially not over something as tomfool as a case of mistaken identity. See earlier that morning I was on my hunt, saw five or six of ‘em riding through the cottonwoods down by the river.
In 1883, a man is hunted for the mistakes of his brother, while a servant girl attempts to flee her lecherous master. Through pain and hardship, their paths cross unexpectedly, hurtling them toward an uncertain future.
