Temple City Strange — Michael Canfield

Temple City...

lonely settlement sinking in the Nevada wasteland, town of fallow mines and haunted dreams.

Wyatt Quake...

gambler and outlaw by trade, lover and rascal by temperament, always a step ahead of the law -- and a noose.

Harmony Darrow...

saloonkeeper, land baroness, and (not incidentally) sheriff. A singular woman with a task tailor-made for such a man as Wyatt --
a man with more bravado than brains, more pluck than luck, and several inconvenient bounties on his head.

One Simple Task...

just steal a bejeweled skull guarding the local gates of Hell, that's all.

But when devil hordes begin to rise...

and demon magic reigns supreme in the desert, a nice, quick drop from the gallows doesn't sound so bad.

And that's to say nothing of the U.S. Cavalry, the homesick posse, various and sundry trigger-happy townsfolk -- nor even the dog...

for all whom life is about to get strange. No mere ordinary kind of strange...Temple City strange.