Peacemaker: 1 (Arcane West Trilogy)

Caleb Marcus is a Peacemaker a roving lawman tasked with maintaining the peace and bringing control to magic users on the frontier. A Peacemaker isnt supposed to take a life--but sometimes its kill or be killed...After a war injury left him half-scoured of his power Caleb and his jackalope familiar have been shipped out West keeping them out of sight and out of the way of more useful agents. And while life in the wild isnt exactly Calebs cup of tea he cant deny that being amongst folk who arent as powerful as he is even in his poor shape is a bit of a relief.But Hope isnt like the other small towns hes visited. The children are being mysteriously robbed of their magical capabilities. Theres something strange and dark about the local land baron who runs the school. Cheyenne tribes are raiding the outlying homesteads with increasing frequency and strange earthquakes keep shaking the very ground Hope stands on.Somethings gone very wrong in the Wild West and its up to Caleb to figure out whats awry before he ends up at the end of the noose--or something far worse...