Aren Montrell has heard tales of the Oestend wraiths –
mysterious creatures which come in the night and kill
anyone who’s not indoors. Aren’s never had reason to
believe the stories, but when he takes a job as a
bookkeeper on the BarChi, a dusty cattle ranch on the
remote Oestend prairie, he soon learns that the wraiths
are real. Aren suddenly finds himself living in a
supposedly haunted house and depending on wards and
generators to protect him from unseen things in the night.
As if that’s not enough, he has to deal with a crotchety
old blind woman, face “cows” that look like nothing he’s
ever seen before, and try to ignore the fact that he’s
apparently the most eligible bachelor around.
Aren also finds himself the one and only confidante of
Deacon, the BarChi’s burly foreman. Deacon runs the BarChi
with an iron fist and is obviously relieved to finally
have somebody he can talk to. As their relationship grows,
Aren learns there’s more to Deacon and the BarChi than
he’d anticipated. Deacon seems determined to deny both his
Oestend heritage and any claim he may have to the BarChi
ranch, but if Aren is to survive the perils of Oestend,
he’ll will have to convince Deacon to stop running from
the past and finally claim everything that’s his.
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