• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Home
  • Books
    • Fantasy
      • Buried Goddess Saga
      • An Unexpected Hero
    • Science Fiction
      • The Ascendant Wars
      • The Circuit
      • Children of Titan
      • The Eighth Continent
      • The Luna Missile Crisis
      • Operation Brushfire
      • Vicarious
    • Weird Western
      • Black Badge
    • Short Fiction
      • At The Helm
      • Bridge Across The Stars
      • This Long Vigil
  • Audiobooks

RHETT C BRUNO

The official site of scifi and fantasy author Rhett C. Bruno

  • About
    • Blog
  • Reader Group
    • Newsletter
    • Join The King’s Shield
  • Contact

Cold As Hell

Black Badge Book 1

By Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle

In the West, there are worse things to fear than bandits and outlaws.

Demons. Monsters. Witches. James Crowley’s sacred duty as a Black Badge is to hunt them down and send them packing, banish them from the mortal realm for good.

He didn’t choose this life. No. He didn’t choose life at all.

Shot dead in a gunfight many years ago, now he’s stuck in purgatory, serving the whims of the White Throne to avoid falling to Hell. Not quite undead, though not alive either, the best he can hope for is to work off his penance and fade away.

This time, the White Throne has sent him to investigate a strange bank robbery in Lonely Hill. An outlaw with the ability to conjure ice has frozen and shattered open the bank vault and is now on a spree, robbing the region for all it’s worth.

In his quest to track down the ice-wielder and suss out which demon is behind granting a mortal such power, Crowley finds himself face-to-face with hellish beasts, shapeshifters, and, worse … temptation. But the truth behind the attacks is worse than he ever imagined …

The Witcher meets The Dresden Files in this weird Western series by the Audible number one bestselling duo behind Dead Acre.


Available In Audiobook

You Can Listen Here


  • Narrator: Roger Clark
  • Duration: 12 hrs and 51 mins

Find It At These Stores

In Digital Here

In Audiobook Here

In Print Here

$4.99

    Available At These Links

    Read A SampleSee The ReviewsSee The Full Series






    Book Details

    • Series: Black Badge
    • Format: Audiobook, Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, Print
    • Genre: Weird Western
    • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
    • Narrator: Roger Clark
    • Pages: 372
    • Duration: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Publication Date: May 24, 2022
    • ISBN: 979-8212184779
    • ASIN: B09GYJXMF5

    Copyright © 2025 · Powered by ModFarm Sites · Log in