THE DEVIL'S MARK

Book One of The Crossroads Series

A mother who never hurt a fly just butchered her three children—and it took three bullets to the head to bring her down.

Martha Hendricks was the kind of woman who brought honey cakes to prisoners and delivered babies in the dead of night. Now she's dead in the dirt of Broken Spoke, Montana Territory, after putting six men in the ground and trying to reload on a seventh.

Gabriel Bane has seen this kind of evil before.

Escaped from Hell during the great prison break of 1692, Gabriel has spent two centuries hunting demons across blood-soaked frontiers. Branded with Hell's mark and armed with the obsidian blade that killed him, he's the monster who hunts monsters—delivering justice with the tools of the damned.

But someone is teaching demons new tricks.

The ritual patterns carved into Martha's cabin floor. The children's blood arranged in perfect geometric precision. The otherworldly compounds in their systems that should not exist in the mortal world. This isn't random demonic possession—this is systematic spiritual warfare, planned with military precision and backed by resources that stretch from frontier churches to senatorial seals.

Someone turned a grieving mother into a weapon. Someone used children's blood to perfect techniques for corrupting the pure of heart.

Now they're preparing their next lesson in violation, and the innocent folk of the frontier are the raw material.

In a world where God is dead, demons wear clerical collars, and every church pulpit conceals corruption, one fallen soul stands at the crossroads between vengeance and redemption.

Every choice could be his last. Every sunset brings him closer to the reckoning.

The Devil's Mark—where salvation comes at gunpoint and justice tastes like sulfur and blood.