Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2004. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel set in the fictitious town of Cottonwood in Kansas - a Western noir novel which "traces the metamorphosis of a frontier town that becomes a lightning rod for sin, corruption, and murder. Phillips also brings to life actual crimes that befell Kansas in the 1870s and 1880s, carried out by a strange clan who popularly became known as The Bloody Benders." One of 300 copies bound in Brillianta cloth and individually numbered and signed by the author on a special limitation page. Author's note, 308 pp.