Zombie Marshal

Jack Colter is the laziest detective in Phoenix - a man famous for doing nothing and running from everything. But when a cursed dagger with the fangs of an alien sovereign slices his palm during a botched pawn-shop heist, Jack wakes up as a fangborn: a modern zombie with superhuman strength, senses, and a hunger he can't explain. Dragged into a war over the seven Starstones - shards of a fallen meteor that hold the key to a Blood Gate under the Arizona desert - Jack must rise through the undying ranks of Fang-Minister, Fang-General, Fang-King, and finally Fang-Emperor. With a reckless crew of misfits, a ghost king freed from a three-century prison, and six of the seven stones in his pack, he faces Silas Crowe, a cult leader who plans to become a god by opening the gate and unleashing the Fangborn on Earth. Funny, bloody, and pulsing with urban-fantasy energy, Zombie Marshal is a story about a coward who learns to stand - and the women who make him worth standing for.