Vulture Mark (The Colt Saga Book 1)

In the burning wastes of Ashfall Territory, sixteen-year-old Archie Soloman watches his family butchered and his ranch reduced to fire and bone. Left for dead—maimed, broken, and meant for retrieval rather than mercy—he is found by the disgraced neural scientist Dr. Thaddeus Müller, who rebuilds him with outlaw science, Blackwire combat architecture, an adamite nanotech arm, synthetic legs, a cybernetic eye, and a living symbiotic heart bound to the Vulture Mark in his chest.But Archie’s survival is not an accident. As he learns to draw faster than any gunslinger in the frontier and rides again with his surviving horse, Storm, he uncovers a hidden machine of claims routes, burial cover, black-market recovery systems, and secret transport lines moving under the name of law. What begins as vengeance against the pale-eyed butcher Cade becomes something darker and far larger: a war against the men who meant to take Archie alive, shape him into a weapon, and bury the truth beneath fire, paper, and graves. Read more