{"id":268,"date":"2015-06-25T04:23:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T04:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2015-10-06T19:43:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T19:43:52","slug":"west-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"West of Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I posted, and with good reason! I&#8217;ve been heads down working on my next novel, a story that combines my love of the classic westerns with fantasy of the wildest sort. I&#8217;m hoping that one day, you&#8217;ll get a chance to journey with me&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>West of Hell<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Charles Gramson expected fire and brimstone when he danced at the end of a hangman&#8217;s rope, but instead he fell into low hell, the wildest of Lucifer&#8217;s domain. There, butchers roam the streets to collect the sin tax, and souls are melted down to give the devil his due.<\/p>\n<p>Hessie Carlyle was hoping for a rain of blood, a proper storm to water the penance wheat and clot in the gullies. Instead, she got a single washed up lawman and a whole mess of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Gramsons&#8217;s arrival has wakened an elder demon from its death slumber deep in the mines, and to be rid of it, Hessie will need help from Hell&#8217;s oldest witch. But going back to the convent Hessie escaped from won&#8217;t be so easy. Together, the corrupt lawman and the murderous prostitute will challenge the order of Hell itself and leave a trail of chaos in their wake.<\/p>\n<p>But Hell&#8217;s greatest evils\u00a0walk on two legs, and the one with Hessie in his sights is an old friend with a score to settle. In the battle for the afterlife it&#8217;s anything goes, because even for a Texas Ranger, there is no law, out west of Hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I posted, and with good reason! I&#8217;ve been heads down working on my next novel, a story that combines my&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/?p=268\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">West of Hell<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-west-of-hell","category-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}