num_pages: 302
description: She died Chessie said. She died rose and nearly died again. She comes. The crows know her  the crows guide her. She follows the sound of a crying child. She follows the drag of un-kept promises on her heart.  Chessie  Hallowed GroundThey came in the night with their creak-wheeled wagons and patchwork tents rolling down through the gulch and up the other side to pitch camp. In Rookwood they called it 'Dead man's Gulch' and in Rookwood names were important. If you walked too far through that God-forsaken dust-drowned ditch you were bound to drag your boots through bones. If you felt something sharp dig into your heel it could be a tooth taking a last bite of something hot and living. The Deacon stood in silent shadows watching their progress occasionally glancing up into the pale inadequate light of the waning moon.When a man known only as The Deacon set up camp outside Rookwood a murder of crows took to unnatural moonlit flight. The crows came to Rookwood; trouble soon to follow. Things were already strange in that God-forsaken town but no one could have predicted the forces and fates about to meet in a dust-bowl clearing in the desert. A Preacher. A Demon. An Angel. A Gunslinger.A bargain with the darkness was signed in blood and broken and as such deals usually do it went south. Now the fate of lost lovers faith healers ancient Gods and the Devil himself collide in a circle of wagons tended by the damaged and deformed the saved and the shorn. There's a power come to Rookwood and this one-horse town is about to be transformed. Such deals are only made and brokenon Hallowed Ground.From Steven Savile International bestselling author of Silver The Last Angel and The Sufferer's Song and David Niall Wilson Bram Stoker Award-winner David Niall Wilson author of Deep Blue This is My Blood &amp; Heart of a Dragon comes a tale of the old west magic enlightenment and damnation readers have said is like Stephen King's The Gunslinger meets Daniel Knauf's Carnivale.
language: English
title: Hallowed Ground
publisher: Crossroads Press