The frontier is burning.

Set in 1999 AC during the brutal civil war between the Anglion Union and the fractured Duskland Republic territories, Where the River Runs Red follows Elias Crowe — a hardened rider deeply inspired by the old frontier legends, a man whose life was destroyed by war and imperial expansion.

After the Anglion Union annihilates Crowe’s Rest during a ruthless rail pacification campaign led by Colonel Lucien Vale, Elias becomes a hunted ghost riding the blood-soaked frontier. Armed with his revolver Mercy and his deadly repeater Widowmaker, he rescues prisoners, refugees, and enslaved Sky-Drift survivors while war erupts around him.

But something far worse than civil war is awakening beneath the frontier.

Hidden beneath rail lines, battlefields, and adamite excavation sites lie ancient Hollow Gates — buried wounds in reality itself. When Elias uncovers one of these forbidden sites, he witnesses the emergence of terrifying entities tied to the mysterious Hollow Throne, an ancient cosmic force long buried beneath the world.

As entire towns fall into chaos and the frontier descends into horror, Elias is drawn into a war far older than mankind itself. Alongside desperate cavalrymen, outlaw Black Spurs, refugees, and the young marksman Talon Reed, Elias must fight not only the Anglion Union, but the darkness beneath the earth threatening to consume civilisation.

Blending grimdark frontier warfare, cosmic horror, brutal action, and deep LitRPG progression elements, Where the River Runs Red is an epic standalone novel set within the vast universe of the War for the Adamite Throne.

The frontier remembers its dead.

And some ghosts refuse to stay buried.