A Dark Frontier RomanceMontana Territory, 1869.Jenny Ames has spent her life being told to endure-endure hunger, endure men, endure the quiet violence of being born a woman in a world carved by guns. So when she boards a mud wagon bound for Montana to marry a man she has never met, she believes she is trading one hardship for another she can survive.She never reaches her wedding.When the stagecoach is ambushed on a lonely stretch of prairie and her fiancé is found dead in the dust, Jenny arrives in the mining town of Above Snakes alone, grieving, and dangerously unprotected.Above Snakes is a boomtown built on gold, lust, and violence-a place where the law bends easily and women disappear without comment. The Devil's Drop Saloon becomes Jenny's refuge and her undoing, drawing her into the orbit of two men whose rivalry has shaped the town itself.Dick Slade, a gambler with a charm sharpened by bloodshed, lives outside the law and sees Jenny for what she is: a woman capable of choosing her own sins.Marshal James Crawford, the town's golden lawman, believes order can still be carved out of chaos. Beneath his badge lies a past stained by violence and a desperate need for redemption-one he believes Jenny represents.Caught between a devil and a savior-neither entirely honest-Jenny becomes the center of a tightening web of desire, obsession, and long-buried vengeance. As bodies begin turning up in the surrounding hills and rumors of a killer spread through the mining camps, she must decide what kind of future she is willing to claim: Safety or freedom.Justice or revenge.The law-or her own survival.Because Above Snakes is a place where nothing stays buried.Not secrets.Not sins.And not women who refuse to disappear.Darkly atmospheric and steeped in gothic tension, Above Snakes blends frontier noir with a dangerous love story about reinvention, survival, and the violent cost of freedom. It is a novel of morally gray men, a woman determined to outlive them, and a West that devours the unprepared.In a land ruled by guns and lies, love may be the most dangerous gamble of all.