she is hettie alabama -- unlikely, scarred, single-minded, and blood bound to a revolver inhabited by a demon. the first book in an epic, magic-clad series featuring the wild west reimagined as a crosscultural stereoscope of interdimensional magic and hardship, the devil's revolver opens with a shooting competition and takes off across the landscape after a brutal double murder and kidnapping -- to which revenge is the only answer. hettie alabama, only seventeen years old, leads her crew of underdogs with her father's cursed revolver, magicked to take a year off her life each time she fires it. it's no way for a ranch girl to grow up, but grow up she does, her scars and determination to rescue her vulnerable younger sister deepening with every year of life she loses. a sweeping and high-stakes saga that gilds familiar western adventure with powerful magic and panoramic fantasy, the devil's revolver is the last word and the blackest hat in the weird west.