The Man in the Black Hat (Unabridged‪)‬

Finalist in the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards

Clay Bauer, at the age of 38, is a second-rate actor in Hollywood. He's too mean-looking to get leading man roles in movies, so he's resigned himself to playing only villains. 

While filming a low-budget Western in the red rocks of Sedona, Arizona, he hears about the vortices there -- places of power where people claim to have strange experiences, even traveling to other dimensions. 

He doesn't believe any of it -- until he accidentally passes through a vortex and is transported more than 100 years into the past. Suddenly he's faced with playing the most important role of his life. Only this time, it's for real.