Skorpio #4

A paperboy stumbles into the chaos of a gang battle, where Skorpio is wounded in the crossfire. Asked to deliver a crucial message from Skorpio to Father Flanagan, he must navigate the city’s hidden tensions before the violence escalates further.

In the dusty frontier town of Skorpio, Dr. Elija Scott finds himself caught between duty and danger when a bank robber demands he treat his wounded brother—just as he’s tending to a pregnant young woman, Susan. With tensions rising and loyalty tested, the doctor must navigate the fragile trust between a desperate outlaw, a frightened girl, and the men who come looking for blood.

In the heat of a brutal fight, Tom Gable endures every blow, his mind racing back to Dea—her gaze, her wager, and the life he built for her with every victory. But as the crowd roars and the bell looms, he wonders if love, no matter how lavish, can truly be earned in the ring.

Enrique Gowlany returns from Mexico with an Aztec funerary mask, unaware that desecrating the temple has bound him to a haunting cycle: every new moon, he must relive the lives and deaths of every man who ever lived or will live. The mask’s curse turns his homecoming into an endless, shifting nightmare.

When a werewolf terrorizes the quiet village of Grandale, Lieutenant Ralph Collins arrives from Molven to uncover the truth—only to find suspicion, secrets, and a web of old grudges among the townsfolk. As fear spreads, old tensions rise between Mc Sullivan, Jack, and the Mc Donald family, while Reverendo Mason and Dottor Perth offer uneasy counsel. With the sovrintendente Mc Dundee watching closely, Collins must piece together the mystery before the next full moon—and the next victim.

As the Odyssey docks in Istanbul, Captain Marcos is drawn into a memory of a love long ago—of a girl he vowed to reunite with after their parting at fifteen. Now, returning to the city after years away, he wonders if the past might still hold a chance, even as the present pulls him toward old names and faces: Desiree, Martha Kendall, Tiara, Eileen Korner, Jurgen, and Feydau.