Montana’s most feared outlaw has left his secret lover, Maria, alone in their secluded house deep in the wilds. If he had known that she was pregnant at the time, the Devil might have stayed.That was almost nine months ago and Maria is still awaiting her lover’s return and the arrival of her child. As she spends her days preparing herself mentally and physically for the fact that very soon she will have to give birth, alone and unaided, Montana itself begins to infiltrate her mind and the overbearing solitude starts to encroach upon her grasp of reality.

But while Maria waits for the Devil, a vengeful band of gunslingers are tracking him. Led by the relentless Rickman Chill, the gang have ventured deep into the dark wilds of Montana and they will stop at nothing to bring the Devil to justice. It is not long before the Chill gang happen upon a lone house in the woods where a pregnant woman seems to be the only inhabitant. Vengeance is a dangerous game, but as the Devil said to Maria before he left her: “There is nothing more dangerous than lovers.”

Written and illustrated by Graham Thomas, ‘Maria & The Devil’ deals with motherhood, solitude, revenge and self-preservation. It is a dark thriller with supernatural undercurrents that come into play when nature and environment clash with the fragility of the mind.