The Layer beneath the Ash (Six Feet of Dirt Book 5)

Twenty years after the events of The Black Ledger, the frontier has grown quieter—and far more dangerous.In a world where the ground itself remembers violence, Duke Riggs rides alone. A Duskland Ranger by law and by instinct, Duke hunts things most people refuse to name: spiritual predators, living horrors, and entities that don’t kill with claws or teeth—but with patience, kindness, and silence.As settlements fall not to invasion but to rest, mercy, and forgetting, Duke follows a trail that leads beyond roads, beyond maps, and into places where reality thins and the land begins to lie. Each mile tests not just his weapons, but the cost of standing between the living world and what waits beneath it.This is not a story of salvation.It is a story of containment.Of lines drawn so others never have to know why they were needed. Read more