num_pages: 159
description: Dex Wells former deputy of the prairie town of Belkins Pass awakes to the sound of screaming. He is chained to the wall of a cave prisoner of the powerful vampire Balthazar who has turned many of the residents of Belkins Pass into vampires like him and used most others as food. Balthazar keeps Dex as bait hoping to lure Dexs lover Josh Stanton into the caves and capture him. There is something different about Josh Balthazar senses it but what that difference is he cant quite tell.Josh Stanton can raise the dead. Its a power hes always had within him and something hes considered a curse. Now however hes discovered that the risen dead can bite through vampire skin and bones. If he can just learn to control the power and with it the dead hes resurrected he might be able to save his lover Dex from Balthazars caves. But theres still a bounty on Joshs head for a murder he did not commit and he ends up back in Belkins Pass with Glory a half Indian half white former saloon girl watched over by a Native American spirit. Together they gather the few residents left alive and make a stand against the rampaging vampires and the wolves under their control.The arrival of two members of the US Army however throws their careful plans into uncertainty as Josh is taken into custody. Can he convince the Army men the truth of their outrageous claims? And can Dex be saved before Balthazar turns him into a vampire as well?
language: English
title: Stakes & Spurs
publisher: Wilde City Press