Three breath-taking stories of the Cowboys and Wizards world, where the Old West meets High Fantasy. With guns a-blazing and arcane powers humming, set on the Llano Estacado, these tales build a world that exists somewhere between ragged and right.

"The Half-Blooded Deputy" - The Trio of outlaws gunned Sheriff Jackson down in cold blood, and no one lifted a finger to help. But now his deputy is back in town, and the pride behind the badge on his chest won't let him turn tail and run.

No matter who advises him to do so. "Justicer's End" - When the Supreme Court ruled that the Fifth Amendment did not apply to the dead, the US Marshals put anyone with necromantic powers to work.

It's a job to die for - literally. But Xachary Barnsworth isn't ready to give up his soul just yet.

And he's got some unsettled business with a certain ghoul. .

. "Danger on Yellowhouse Canyon" - one day Colt Blade will be the most famous bounty hunter ever known.

But everyone starts somewhere. This starts with Eugene staring down the business end of a forty-five in the hands of murderous half-elf.

He could walk away - but there's a hole in his bean-pot and there's something strange about that Pat fellow. Gunsmoke and Black Magic is the second volume in the Cowboys and Wizards series, begun in "Faceoff at the Playa.

" Future editions will continue to build an interlocking world where characters pit their resources against the sea of grass on the High Plains of Texas known as the Llano Estacado. .