Trapper was my family even though I didn't know a sure thing about him. What do you do when the man who gave you everything turns out to be a killer? Perfect for fans of STATION ELEVEN by Emily St. And I expect that I will for a good long while.A debut literary thriller from an incredible new voice. The wild don’t give up it’s forever and so was I.” Inner fire, honest vulnerability, and an endearing sense of humor, make Elka a remarkable character and since I finished The Wolf Road I have missed her. The wild keeps going till it don’t have strength in its muscles and bones. On her journey, Elka’s wits are put to the test time and again, but she is a child of the wilderness and lives by its rules, “You ever see a bear jump off a cliff ‘cause life handed him a few rough draws? No, you don’t. Once there Elka learns horrifying things about the man she thought of as her daddy and sets off immediately to distance herself from him and try to find her parents. Elka is raised in isolation amid the wilderness until, at age eighteen, she ventures into town for the first time. After a devastating storm, a scrappy young tomboy is taken in by a strange tattooed backwoodsman who names her Elka. Long after a cold war mis-step has turned back the clock, gold rush fever and vigilante justice are once again a way of life. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īn Amazon Best Book of July 2016: Beth Lewis’ debut novel, The Wolf Road, is a brilliant amalgam of literary thriller and gritty western. The Wolf Road is an intimate cat-and-mouse tale of revenge and redemption, played out against a vast, unforgiving landscape-told by an indomitable young heroine fighting to escape her past and rejoin humanity. If she’s going to survive, Elka will have to turn and confront not just him, but the truth about the dark road she’s been set on. But judging by the trail of blood dogging her footsteps, she hasn’t left Trapper behind-and he won’t be letting his little girl go without a fight. And now that Elka knows the truth, she may be his next victim.Īrmed with nothing but her knife and the hard lessons Trapper’s drilled into her, Elka flees into the frozen north in search of her real parents.
In the years since then, he’s taught her how to survive in this desolate land where civilization has been destroyed and men are at the mercy of the elements and each other.īut the man Elka thought she knew has been harboring a terrible secret. She was just seven years old, wandering lost and hungry in the wilderness, when the solitary hunter took her in.
Elka barely remembers a time before she knew Trapper.
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