Dead Reckoning

The year is 1867. Jett Gallatin, age seventeen, has one mission: find her missing twin brother. Posing as a gunslinger, Jett pretends to be a man in order to travel freely while on her quest. While having a drink at a saloon in a small Texas town, Jett comes face to face with a hoard of the undead. She narrowly escapes the zombies, but is able to flee with the help of her trusty steed. Her exodus from town leads her directly to some unlikely allies: a scout for the U.S.Army, White Fox, and a liberated woman inventor/investigator/scientist, Honoria Gibbons. Gibbons doesn’t believe Jett’s story about the undead, it is not scientifically possible. There has to be a logical explanation. Using White Fox’s tracking skills, they find that the hoard returned to a local ranch, Jerusalem’s Wall. All three begin different aspects of investigation: Gibbons finds out about how Jerusalem’s Wall has been acquiring large tracts of land. Gibbons also finds something suspicious in the town’s drinking supplies. Jett and White Fox investigate the farm itself and find that the leader of the sect, Brother Shepherd, claims to be able to raise the dead. Using their combined talents, they have to figure out how to stop Brother Shepherd and his zombies before it is too late.