Don MacEllis

In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow – the first, and only, in the territory.

What if the real Santa was an assassin kids could hire to kill their parents, and the only way you got to him was through a kid that had already used him?

When the Devil descends on a small Midwestern town and propositions Brand and his gang of young punks to fight in an apocalyptic war, it forces Brand to make the ultimate choice: avenge the death of his sister by the murderous "4-Barrel Felons" or sacrifice everyone he loves to save the fate of mankind.