Badlands, A Novella of Open Wounds - Open Wounds Shorts, #2

When Megan and Tony D'ags and crew came to San Angelo, they were surprised tofind that the sheriff was an old acquaintance of Tony's. Not quite a friend, not quite an enemy, the whole situation was odd enough to keep Megan and therest of the crew on their toes. Even Tony didn't really trust the sheriff andhis cronies. When they found out the sheriff was crooked, and that they'd set themselves upwith a little black market operation on the side, nobody was surprised.
When they found out that the sheriff, the town, and now Tony and his crewwere about to be dragged in to be sacrificed to something from the outerdarkness, an evil being from beyond too hideous for human comprehension... Badlands is a novella set in M. K. Dreysen's Open Wounds Universe, the secondin a series of shorter works. Here, Megan and Tony continue as apprentice andmentor, and Megan discovers for the first time that there are things stalkingthe Empire, indeed humanity itself, from outside space and time.