New schoolteacher Catherine Barrowe arrives in Damnation - a town out West where sorcery exists alongside clockwork and cold steel, where hot lead kills your enemy but it takes a blessing to make his corpse stay down for good. She doesn't fit in but that doesn't matter, she's in town to find her brother, whose letters were full of dark hints about gold, and trouble, and something much more sinister. The sheriff Jack Gabriel might be able to help, but he's keeping his secrets close to his chest. However, Catherine and Jack are going to find out that in Damnation, some secrets just won't stay buried forever.