Nevada 1897
All Hollow Grim wants out of life is quiet. He’s happiest in the moments of peace he finds in his quiet postal office, sorting the mail for Progress Township. The quiet is stirred from time to time, when he’s called to his occasional role as a fugitive hunter for the US Marshal.
Hollow Grim is a killer. He is the killer this state needs. He is methodical, precise and emotionless in his approach to the predators he is tasked to hunt. His effectiveness is sharpened in his detachment. He is going to find himself becoming more dangerous, as he is going to become emotionally involved.
Hollow finds himself captivated by a letter sent to him by the mother of her missing daughter, a woman he once knew as a pleasure girl at Gertrude’s hotel. He is well accustomed to accounts of violence and tragedy, but the image of the lost innocent girl stays with him. When he crosses paths with the wrong detail, shared by someone in town with the right opportunity, he sees a thread tying through a series of abductions, thought until then to be a wild stirring string of gossip.
Captivation becomes a war path for Hollow and the predator at the end of his hunt.
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