Red Winter (The Cowboy and the Vampire Collection)

Fans of The Cowboy and the Vampire: A Very Unusual Romance, and The Cowboy and the Vampire: Blood and Whiskey, know that LonePine, Wyoming, will see more than its share of the undead, but not for another 120 years.

It's 1890 and winter is closing like a noose around tiny LonePine. When the snows come and the train stops and the passes are buried, there's only one way to leave LonePine -- boots up in a pine box. For Sheriff Early Hardiman, once one of the fastest guns in the West, it's another four months of watching over the foolish and the foolhardy and praying for spring. At least he has the lovely Miss Grace, his new wife and former madam of the infamous Pearl, to keep him company. But then people start dying, and not in the usual way -- they are dying hard, tortured and drained of their blood. Worse, it appears Miss Grace may be next on their list.

How do you kill someone who just won't stay dead? It will take more than a steady hand filled with a blazing six shooter if anyone in LonePine lives through the Red Winter.

A novella.