The God in the Dirt

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Genres

Fantasy Horror, Westerns, Historical, Novels, and Debut

Trigger Warnings

Violence and Death

Type of Ending

Series

Not part of a series

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Publication Date

Dec 10, 2025

Page Length

327 pages

Available Formats

ePub and PDF

The God in the Dirt

Advance Reader Copy

Blurb

Beneath the dust of Dry Gulch, no soul is clean—or resting in peace.

Nat Gig never belonged anywhere—except center stage. A rhinestone-clad outlaw with a flair for misdirection, he built his legend from style, sabotage, and sheer swagger.

But when he returns to Dry Gulch—a town that no longer welcomes him—he finds something far worse than rejection. Beneath the dust lies a vein of living ore: a sentient mineral that reshapes memory and remakes those who touch it.

With the help of Magda, a saloonkeeper with a fondness for arson, Nat declares war to reclaim the town from the ore’s parasitic grip.

The deeper he digs, the more the mine exposes—memories he buried, truths he rewrote, and the cost of his own myth.

Nat Gig would rather die on stage than fade into someone else’s legend.

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