Publisher's blurb:
No stranger to the way of the gun, Vanessa Marshall was raised as an outlaw by her father – a deserting United States Army Sergeant scarred by the guilt of his actions during the Ghost Dance War. In his struggle to shelter his family, along the way the Sergeant lost his wife, Vanessa’s siblings, and eventually his will to live. Despite her father’s best efforts, Vanessa found herself alone on the frontiers. The small time skirmishes of the so-called Wild West had given way to a new world driven by perpetual conflict. In this violent backdrop Vanessa found that she had inherited all of her father’s skill for combat and none of his desire for the bottle, making her an asset to warmongers of all stripes. By the age of twenty-one Vanessa was second in command to Hudson Delaney, a ruthless gangster who saw much of himself in his young lieutenant. This bond lasted until Delaney insisted on massacring a community of wealthy retired Buffalo Soldiers who refused to be extorted – a community founded by her father’s old comrades. Vanessa refused to pull the trigger, and as a result she was left for dead by her former mentor. On that day the Grave Maker was born, and she stalks town to town searching for wrongdoers to bury – each of them a message to Delaney that one day a grave will be made for him by her hand.