A Cold Day in Tombstone Tombstone, Arizona, 1881. The heat is heavy enough to crush a man, but a far more bitter fate awaits the frontier. The Dairy Raiders didn't come for the payroll gold; they came for the soul of Chocolate Town. By hijacking the zinc-lined iceboxes destined for the trans-dimensional portal, they've struck at the heart of the territories. Now, the countdown is on: if the Great Factory's furnaces lose their flame, the sweetest comfort in the West will vanish, leaving a void that gunpowder and lead can't fill. Standing between order and a full-blown riot is Edward, a young inventor from the sky-high Gravity Gardens. With his Tom Thumb locomotive-a brass-clad marvel that hovers on a blue Nebula-Drive-Edward must navigate a desert where the laws of physics are as unpredictable as a rattlesnake. He isn't riding alone. Joined by the legendary Wyatt Earp and the fierce Apache seer Lozen, Edward must push his engine to the breaking point. From the shadow of the O.K. Corral to the jagged fortresses of the Dragoon Mountains, he'll face Gatling guns and ancient desert secrets. Armed with Chrono-Trigger Revolvers and a Lapis-Inlaid Bowie Knife, the "Little Engineer" is about to find out if his wit and gears are enough to outrun a bullet and save the world's most precious resource. When the sun sets on the Arizona scrub, will the Lapis Heart still beat, or will the West go cold forever?
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