About this series
Hell's not so scary when you've been there twice already…
It's been three years since she lost her sister, Abby, to the Division, and Hettie Alabama has gone rogue. Roaming the West with an outlaw posse, robbing banks and stealing magic, she's broken every rule she once believed in. Nothing matters anymore but finding Abby.
Meanwhile, the world is on fire. Hungry for power, the Division leaches magic from the vulnerable, with dire consequences that set Hettie's pursuit of her sister on a collision course with dangerous monsters and even more dangerous men. It's up to Hettie and her cursed revolver, Diablo, to find a way to save the world—or end it.
The Legend of Diablo delivers an action-packed conclusion to the Devil's Revolver series steeped in violent history, dark magic, and hope that demands an accounting.
Titles in the series (4)
- The Devil's Revolver: The Devil's Revolver, #1
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She is Hettie Alabama — unlikely, scarred, single-minded, and blood bound to a revolver inhabited by a demon. The first book in an epic, magic-clad series featuring the Wild West reimagined as a crosscultural stereoscope of interdimensional magic and hardship, The Devil's Revolver opens with a shooting competition and takes off across the landscape after a brutal double murder and kidnapping — to which revenge is the only answer. Hettie Alabama, only seventeen years old, leads her crew of underdogs with her father's cursed revolver, magicked to take a year off her life each time she fires it. It's no way for a ranch girl to grow up, but grow up she does, her scars and determination to rescue her vulnerable younger sister deepening with every year of life she loses. A sweeping and high-stakes saga that gilds familiar Western adventure with powerful magic and panoramic fantasy, The Devil's Revolver is the last word and the blackest hat in the Weird West.
- The Devil's Standoff: The Devil's Revolver, #2
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Welcome to the birthplace of the Devil's Revolver, where untold danger lurks for Hettie Alabama and her companions… The second book in the epic, magic-clad Devil's Revolver series follows Hettie and her sister south of the Wall into Mexico, where they must unmake Hettie's infernal mage gun while confronting a magic- and land-hungry army and a monster from hell drawn to the powers of the weapon. Hettie wants nothing more than to break her bond to the cursed Devil's Revolver and find a way to keep her sister safe — but Abby's indigo powers are growing stronger, and in the gated, walled village where they take refuge, nothing is exactly as it seems. Pursued by the Pinkertons, left without allies or guardians, Hettie has to rely on her own grit and determination to do the right thing, no matter the cost. This second installment of V. S. McGrath's sweeping and high-stakes saga draws its truly unforgettable gunslinger heroine to her limits and ends with a satisfying bang. Praise for The Devil's Revolver "The feminist western you've been waiting for: The Devil's Revolver has heart and grit. A terrific genre-crossing tale with a deft touch of the macabre." —Donna Thorland, author of The Turncoat, writer on the TV series Salem and the upcoming Netflix series Sabrina "A fantastically readable female-focused story . . . A really terrific riff on the Western, told with huge verve." —KJ Charles, author of the Charm of Magpies series
- The Devil's Pact: The Devil's Revolver, #3
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"A terrific genre-crossing tale with a deft touch of the macabre." —Donna Thorland, writer on Netflix's The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Hold on to your hats — the Devil's Revolver series is back with an evil twin, deep magic, zombies, menacing grand balls, a train heist, hand-to-hand high-stakes battles, and two sisters who have grown in their power to face and fight the end of the Weird West. If Hettie Alabama could do what she was told and stand down . . . she might not anyway. Especially when the letters her sister sends from her place of hiding don't seem quite right, and Hettie's posse is tying her hands tighter by the day. She's itching to take the safety off her cursed mage gun, the Devil's Revolver, and walk through the fire to end the reign of evil that's choking the magic out of the West—not to mention save her sister once and for all. The only problem? Hettie's name is in the headlines and on every wanted poster in the nation—but she's not the one robbing banks and killing innocents, even if the pictures look just like her. She's up to her chin in high-necked gowns and beauty glamors, charged with fulfilling her word to the influential Favreau family of New Orleans, even as it becomes increasingly clear that they want only to consolidate the world's waning magic in the hands of the rich and powerful. The politics get more personal as the most loyal of Hettie's gang uncover the threat of an immoderate technology that steals magic from the unwitting innocent and transfers it to the nefarious elite. Hettie has no choice but to go rogue, and when she drops a black hat over her brow, the Devil's Revolver's trigger glows hot. The Devil's Pact stampedes from San Francisco's Chinatown tongs through the glittering high society of Chicago to the hidden swamps of the Deep South in its search for truth, genuine justice, and an end to a world that refuses to recognize the power and change wrought by girls.
- The Legend of Diablo: The Devil's Revolver, #4
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Hell's not so scary when you've been there twice already… It's been three years since she lost her sister, Abby, to the Division, and Hettie Alabama has gone rogue. Roaming the West with an outlaw posse, robbing banks and stealing magic, she's broken every rule she once believed in. Nothing matters anymore but finding Abby. Meanwhile, the world is on fire. Hungry for power, the Division leaches magic from the vulnerable, with dire consequences that set Hettie's pursuit of her sister on a collision course with dangerous monsters and even more dangerous men. It's up to Hettie and her cursed revolver, Diablo, to find a way to save the world—or end it. The Legend of Diablo delivers an action-packed conclusion to the Devil's Revolver series steeped in violent history, dark magic, and hope that demands an accounting.
V. S. McGrath
V. S. McGrath is a published romance author (as Vicki Essex) and has six books with Harlequin Superromance: Her Son’s Hero (July 2011); Back to the Good Fortune Diner (January 2013), which was picked for the Smart Bitches Trashy Books Sizzling Book Club; In Her Corner (March 2014); A Recipe for Reunion (March 2015); Red Carpet Arrangement (January 2016); and Matinees with Miriam (November 2016). She has been featured in the Globe and Mail, Metro Toronto, Torontoist, Inside Toronto, and Canada.com. The Devil’s Revolver is her debut young adult fantasy. You can find her on Facebook, Twitter, or her websites: vsmcgrath.com and vickiessex.com. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
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