Diese Serie entführt Leser in eine raue und gefährliche Grenzlandschaft, in der Steampunk-Fantasy auf Western-Abenteuer trifft. In der unnatürlichen Grenzstadt werden Geheimnisse und dunkle Mysterien aufgedeckt. Charaktere mit ungewöhnlichen Vergangenheiten und unheimlichen Fähigkeiten navigieren durch eine Welt voller Magie, Schusswaffen und unerwarteter Verrat. Machen Sie sich bereit für eine epische Saga, in der das Überleben ein ständiger Kampf gegen sowohl irdische als auch arkane Kräfte ist.
In der kleinen Stadt Golgotha, Nevada, im Jahr 1869, verstecken sich große Geheimnisse. Der Sheriff, ein toter Mann in der Warteschleife, kämpft mit seinen Leuten gegen die Dunkelheit, die die Welt bedroht. Ein faszinierendes Abenteuer, das Western, Steampunk und Fantasy vereint und verschiedene Schicksale miteinander verbindet.
R. S. Belcher's debut novel, The Six-Gun Tarot, was enthusiastically greeted by critics and readers, who praised its wildly inventive mixture of dark fantasy, steampunk, and the Wild West. Now Belcher returns to Golgotha, Nevada, a bustling frontier town that hides more than its fair share of unnatural secrets.
One of the most popular characters from The Six-Gun Tarot and The Shotgun Arcana now ventures beyond the Weird West on a boldly imaginative, globe-spanning adventure of her own as R. S. Belcher's Golgotha series continues with The Queen of Swords .1720. Escaping the gallows, Anne Bonney, the infamous pirate queen, sets sail in search of a fabulous treasure said to be hiding in a lost city of bones somewhere in the heart of Africa. But what she finds is a destiny she never expected . . . .1870. Maude Stapleton is a respectable widow raising a daughter on her own. Few know, however, that Maude belongs to an ancient order of assassins, the Daughters of Lilith, and heir to the legacy of Anne Bonney, whose swashbuckling exploits blazed a trail that Maude must now follow―if she ever wants to see her kidnapped daughter again!Searching for her missing child, come hell or high water, Maude finds herself caught in the middle of a secret war between the Daughters of Lilith and their ancestral enemies, the monstrous Sons of Typhon, inhuman creatures spawned by primordial darkness, she embarks on a perilous voyage that will ultimately lead her to the long-lost secret of Anne Bonney―and the Father of All Monsters.
Set in Nevada in 1872, the story unfolds in the town of Golgotha, where a stranger arrives from the harsh 40-Mile Desert, bringing an innocent survivor of a massacre and a chilling warning to Sheriff Jon Highfather. Tensions between the Indian nations and Mormon settlers escalate as the spirits of the slain rise, intensifying the looming conflict. The narrative explores themes of survival, vengeance, and the supernatural, intertwining the fates of the living and the dead in a gripping historical backdrop.