A Tree of Bones

✍ Scribed by Gemma Files

• Publisher: ChiZine Publications
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 312 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1926851641

✦ Synopsis

New Mexico, 1867: Months have passed since hexslinger Chess Pargeter sacrificed himself to restore the town of Bewelcome, once cursed to salt by his former lover, " Reverend" Asher Rook. Now a coalition led by Allan Pinkerton' s Detective Agency lays siege to reborn Mayan goddess Ixchel' s notorious " Hex City," the one place on earth where hexes can act in consort, and the desert just outside Bewelcome has become the front line in what threatens to become a new Civil War-- one in which wild magic and black science clash headlong, producing carnage like nothing the world has ever seen.

Though reinstated with the Agency, Pinkerton-turned-outlaw Ed Morrow finds himself caught between factions, as Aztec trickster god Tezcatlipoca roams the battlefield wearing Chess' s face and body, promising aid while sowing dissent. Further into the wasteland, spiritualist Yancey Kloves and her allies struggle to stop an ever-widening, monster-spewing crack from...