A powerful necromancer.

An unexpected ally.

The wild, wild west has never smelled so . . . um . . . sweet?

When Abby Crumb finally meets up with her mother, her situation goes from disturbingly violent to utterly rotten. Stuck in a mining camp in the middle of nowhere with a family tree that keeps sprouting unexpected branches, Abby sinks deeper and deeper into the bottomless muck of her mother's treachery. Now Abby must finally confront her dark past before that dark past devours them all.

At least there are no clockwork dragons or angry sorcerers to face. That should make life a bit simpler.

Shouldn't it?