'Fine young ladies always make for the best ransoms-and company!' Flor quips with a lascivious wink. On cue, Flor swoops in, demanding loot and kidnapping a Southern belle, who modestly hides her face under a green bonnet.

In the New Mexico Territory circa 1861, stagecoach passengers pass the time making conversation about Civil War strategies and Southwestern desperados. An engrossing escapade with a heart-stealing queer romance.'-Kirkus Reviews, 'The Ghost Hawk-otherwise known as Flor-is a queer Latinx bandit with a bird-of-prey helpmate who wields a six-shooter and wears a leather hat atop her voluminous black mane. An open-ended but still satisfying resolution suggests a bright, hopeful future while leaving room to imagine more adventures for Grace and Flor. Their romance develops naturally through moments of flirtation and fond glances. The narrative unites two women with different backgrounds, depicting a relationship in which they support one another. Panels full of movement and vivid character expression create an immersive reading experience.

Gillman (Steven Universe: Punching Up, 2018, etc.) captures the southwestern atmosphere with a soft, dusty color palette.

With the help of Grace's acting skills and understanding of upper-class, white Georgian culture, they plot to steal secrets from a backroom meeting at a cotillion and sell them to the Union. Despite the wild stories, the mysterious Ghost Hawk turns out to be a 'short brown lady' named Flor who dreams of living out the rest of her life on her own patch of land with some goats as soon as she gets the money from one last, big heist. When Grace, a white trans woman and aspiring actress, runs away from conscription into the Georgia Infantry, she finds herself caught in the talons of the Ghost Hawk, a half-woman, half-hawk demon bandit-or so the rumors say. 'A runaway and a bandit in search of new lives team up to steal war plans from the Confederacy.

Stage dreams by melanie gillman