A Devil Of A Job
Colt Jackson has gotten his name on many a wanted poster with success in the family business: hunting supernaturals across the frontier. Lately, though, there's a sulfur stink in the wind and the Darkin population is exploding. A rift in the worlds is appearing. To close it, Colt will have to do the unthinkable and work with a demon to pass arcane boundaries no human alone can cross.
Except when he summons his demon, he doesn't get some horned monstrosity: he gets a curvy redheaded succubus named Lilly, who's willing to make a bargain to become human again. He also gets Lilly's secret expertise on the machinations on the dark side of the rift. And her charm and cleverness help to get them out of what his silver-loaded pistol and mechanical horse can't. Of course, when all hell breaks loose, he might have to sacrifice his soul. But what's adventure without a little risk?
"Meyers puts the steam in steampunk." —Cherry Adair
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- ISBN: 9781420125566
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Publisher's Weekly
Starred review from August 8, 2011
Meyers’s steampunk western packs a sizzling demonic romance into a fast-paced quest through tiny frontier towns. Brothers Winchester, Remington, and Colt Jackson take up the family tradition of vampire and demon hunting, assisted by inventor Marley Turlock and his spectro-photometric oglifiers. Colt is looking for his father’s Book of Legend, but to get it, he’ll have to battle Rathe, a vampire, fallen archangel, and demon lord described as “Lucifer’s ugly badman big brother.” He also encounters Rathe’s pawn, the succubus Lilly, and soon the supernatural sparks are flying. Meyers piles on the gee-whiz moments and eyeball kicks—including a steam-powered freeze machine, electric stun guns powered by Tesla coils, and a clockwork horse—in a well-crafted, eminently enjoyable story that will leave readers wanting more time with the Jackson brothers. -
Booklist
October 15, 2011
Blushing succubus Lilly Arliss wants freedom from archdemon Rathe and to be human again. She believes the Jackson brothersWinchester, Remington, and Coltare the Chosen who are destined for great feats. The brothers, all Hunters who slay paranormal beings, must find the three sections of the Book of Legend that was sundered in the Middle Ages. The rejoined book will close the Gates of Nyx and stop the influx of paranormal Durkin. This fast-paced tale of the weird west features a clockwork horse, a vampire-owned dirigible, the Lost Dutchman Mine (which is really an enormous death machine), shape-shifters, a giant spider, and a mechanical scorpion. Its dangerous, cinematic adventures are in the same vein as Romancing the Stone, The Wild Wild West, and Goonies but set in territorial Arizona. In this series-launcher, Meyers doesn't stint on the romance, including an unlikely pair, true love, and blazing hot lovemaking that ignites a honeymoon suite.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)
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