Publisher's Synopsis
It is 1871. The landscape of the American West keeps getting colder...and weirder.Three years after the supernatural calamity that befell Yellow Hill, the sole surviving family, The Millers work for Judge Hezekiah Ellison's cattle ranch. Hezekiah Ellison, the mysterious figurehead of The Peregrine Estate. Because of the Miller's experience with the supernatural, the Judge considers offering the Millers positions within the Peregrine Estate. They survived Yellow Hill, after all. They survived the blood and the terror of those events and would make valuable assets against the nightmare creatures stalking the night. Meanwhile, Sir Sigurd of Antioch, a vampire knight of the Kingdom of Scarlet Light, is hellbent on finding his wife's murderers, the Ptolemy family. Sigurd learns Gilbert and Carson Ptolemy were Peregrine Agents for Judge Ellison and so he raises an army of vampire thralls and points them toward the Peregrine Estate's headquarters in Abilene, Texas. Sigurd arrives in Abilene to enact his vengeance only to find that Carson Ptolemy isn't in Abilene at all...Carson Ptolemy is no longer interested in the Peregrine Estate, their secret war, or Judge Ellison's vigilant campaign to protect the American West. Carson Ptolemy wants revenge. The former monster bounty hunter wants revenge against the Society of Prometheus, a strange cult of elites who killed both of Carson's fathers and want nothing more than to bring about absolute oblivion by summoning a dark pantheon of gods they refer to as "The Nine." The threads of the Ptolemy and Miller family fates intertwine again as they face enemies, new and old, of tremendous and diabolical power in the sequel to the 2018 PenCraft Award-Winning Novel The Massacre at Yellow Hill. A Red Winter in the West is the second book in C.S. Humble's Survivors Trilogy.
