Dawn in Damnation is now available from Kensington Books in paperback and all digital formats.
“A cast of delightfully distinctive, authentically funny outlaws, butting heads in a lazy afterlife saloon somewhere between and hell define the setting of Casey’s weird western…. Cantankerous dialogue shines with clever phrasing and unique voices.”
Buddy Baker is a dead man. Literally. After gunning down more men than Billy the Kid—and being hung by a rope necktie for his crimes—the jolly, fast-drawing fugitive reckoned he’d earned himself a nonstop ticket to hell. Instead, he finds himself in Damnation: a gun-slinging ghost town located somewhere between heaven and hell.
There are no laws in Damnation. Only two simple rules: If you get shot, you go directly to hell. If you stay alive without shooting anyone for one year, you just might get into heaven.
Hardened outlaws pass the time in the saloon playing poker and wagering on who will get sent to hell next, while trying not to anger the town’s reclusive vampire or the quarrelsome werewolves. Buddy winds up in everyone’s crosshairs after swearing to protect a pretty gal who arrives in Damnation pregnant. Her child might end up a warm-blooded meal for the supernatural residents, or it could be a demon spawn on a mission to destroy them all.
Coming in May 2018
Dead Indian Wars is the second book in the Damnation series. The outlaws are surrounded by hordes of angry natives who want vengeance on the soldiers who sent them to the grave. Luckily, there’s a new sheriff in town, and he’s armed to the fangs.
Other Works Available Now
Four 20-something lost souls meet in a bar in Manhattan in the early 1980s, and it changes the course of their lives. Over the course of two decades, a hypochondriac trying to get rid of his native Queens accent stalks a well-endowed shy girl, while his pool hustler friend marries then divorces a big-haired bimbo with dreams of becoming a “florologist.”
Private Investigator Jack Hannigan takes on his toughest case yet: a man who has lost his talent. Soon after, a cheerleader hires him to kill a dead man. Then the dead man asks for his help in seducing a stripper to the stars, who later turns up dead herself. A satiric detective novella filled with scenes of gut-splitting humor and borderline pornography.
A young couple inherit a 10 million-dollar apartment on Fifth Avenue, then find the windowsill is inhabited by Central Park’s most famous red-tailed hawk. Following the actual chronology of Pale Male’s nesting and controversial eviction from one of the most exclusive addresses in New York, a fictional couple offer a glimpse into the lives of elite Upper East Siders.