Cora Ogelsby and her husband Ben started battling evil
monsters over 15 years ago, but no matter how many of them
are eradicated, something new always comes along. Cora's
unique ability to locate and eliminate supernatural beings
has brought her to Leadville, Colorado, where she
encounters a new killer -- a "wendigo" -- which puts her
skills to the test. Lamenting that age is wearing her down,
causing more aches and pains, and her draw isn't quite as
quick as before, maybe it's time for a different line of
work. She just doesn't know anything else and then the
decision is taken out of her hands.
After collecting her fee from the local sheriff and set to
leave town after killing the wendigo, Cora is summoned to
the home of Lord Harcourt on the outskirts of Leadville. He
offers a huge sum of money for her services. It seems a
nest of vampires have taken up residence in his silver
mining operation and every day more miners are lost to
them. But something is different about the leader of this
horde of vampires, which Cora soon learns after killing
some of them in the mine shafts. What she doesn't realize
is that she's encountered this horrible being before and
has blocked it from her mind. A confrontation 10 years ago
has come back to haunt Cora, and it has affected her life
in more ways than she can fathom. When she finally faces
the truth, will she be able to survive the shock?
After a bit of a slow start to THE DEAD OF WINTER, it
finally picked up speed and fully captured my interest in
knowing the outcome. The idea of how easily residents of
the old Wild West accepted that supernatural creatures
existed among them took some getting used to, but Lee
Collins did a fine job of developing the characters in
a uniquely interesting plot.
Cora and her husband hunt things - things that shouldn't
exist. When the marshal of Leadville, Colorado, comes
across a pair of mysterious deaths, he turns to Cora to
find the creature responsible, but if Cora is to overcome
the unnatural tide threatening to consume the small town,
she must first confront her own tragic past as well as her
present.
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