Desperadoes: A Moment's Sunlight #[nn]

In the stark, sun-scorched reaches of the frontier, Gideon, Jerome, and Abby track the man who slaughtered Gideon’s family—Leander Peik—through a landscape that feels as haunted as the past. As they press forward, the shadow of Race Kennedy, a relentless Pinkerton agent hunting them all, grows longer with every mile.

In "Chapter 2: The Gathering Gloom," the relentless pursuit of Leander Piek reaches a chilling peak as Gideon and his companions close in—only to lose him when he vanishes into thin air. The weight of violence and dread settles over the frontier, where every shadow feels like a threat and every step forward might be the last.

In "Chapter 5: Blankenship's Arm," Gideon and his gang arrive in a quiet frontier town to visit old friends, only to find Ned on the brink of death after a train accident. As he lies dying, spectral figures rise from the earth, reenacting the brutal battlefield of Chancellorsville—where Ned once lost his arm—drawing the living into a haunting echo of the past.