Stephen King’s The Gunslinger meets Breaking Poor in Laura Bickle’s novel Dark Alchemy.

Some secrets are better left buried …

Geologist Petra Dee arrives in Wyoming seeking clues to her father’s disappearance years back. What she finds instead is certainly Temperance, a dying western town using a silver rush past and a meth-infested present. But beneath the dust and quiet, an old power is shifting. When bodies begin turning up-desiccated and twisted skeletons that Petra can’t scientifically explain-her investigations property her in the center of a covert war between the town’s most powerful interests. Petra’s father wasn’t the only person looking for the alchemical secrets of Temperance, and those still looking are now ready to destroy. Armed with nothing but shaky alliances, a set of antique guns, and a relic she doesn’t understand, the only thing Petra knows for certain is definitely that she and her coyote sidekick are going to have to go fast-or die following.