Dead Wind Series

In 1863, as war rages in Mexico and the United States, another millennia old conflict is escalating. Fueled by the whims of an eldritch intelligence, all of mankind is subject to its sway. Samuel Sheldon is a chosen heir of the trust, an enigmatic and gold obsessed cabal with origins seeped in the secret history of the world. When his prisoner, Mangas Coloradas, is murdered on Sheldon's first assignment, an unpredictable series of events threaten to upset the trust's flawless designs.

As America enters the Gilded Age, an insidious darkness lurks behind the veneer of golden prosperity. Guided by the cryptic directive of an ancient intelligence, Samuel Sheldon and the Trust insert themselves in the highest levels of the United States government, corrupting even the Executive Office. From their newly established base of power, they engineer a secret war across the expanding western territories, bent on claiming vast undiscovered gold deposits.