A Rose Among the Ashes

A Rose Among the Ashes

She tried to save his tortured soul. The Civil War has ended. A country ripped apart struggles to find a new identity. A charismatic singer and entertainer named Catherine Callahan travels the young nation. Her hair henna red, her voice exquisite, and her presence enchanting. During one of her stagecoach voyages, Catherine takes pity on a wild dog of a man broken and left for dead on the side of the trail. This single event sends a shockwave through the sprits in the wind, spirits that have hounded and haunted the gunslinger known as Longhair, David Murphy. In his first volume, journalist Vernon Sheilds captured Murphy’s life story. In this second volume, it wasn’t enough for Sheilds to simply follow the trend of sensationalizing the gunfights, the blood, guts, and the spark between the cowboy and the fair-haired maiden. Instead, the Western writer felt it necessary to include unspoken details, an essence of horror, and the ‘dark magic’ of the disturbed spiritual entities in existence for centuries. Vernon Sheilds dared to alter what we know as a Wild West Adventure. And Longhair’s pursuit of peace in the form of Catherine Callahan is the result. “If you like your westerns flavored with just a touch of psychological darkness, this book is for you.” – Amazon Review