Hollow Ground

Bethel's Reach, Arizona Territory, 1883. The silver never runs out. Neither does the price.Cole Ambrose rode into the Reach chasing the Sable gang and the brother who disappeared into it. What he finds instead is a boomtown sitting on a vein that shouldn't exist — ore that comes up warm, miners who come back changed, and a judge who has kept the whole camp rich for thirty years on a bargain nobody says out loud after dark.The outlaws are real. The bounty is real. But they aren't what's waiting under Bethel's Reach, and everyone in town already knows it: the sheriff burying his own reports, the housekeeper keeping a ledger of the vanished, the preacher who no longer believes what he preaches over the dead.Cole came to find his brother. He may only get to close the hole his brother fell into — and decide how much of himself he's willing to spend on a debt that was never his.A weird Western about complicity, silver, and what a town will trade for peace, where the real monster was never the men with guns.