From critically acclaimed author Laura Bickle (Dark Alchemy) comes
the first novel in the Wildlands series, NINE OF STARS. Longmire meets
Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thompson in this exciting new series that shows
how weird and wonderful the West can truly be.
Winter has always been a deadly season in Temperance, but this time,
there's more to fear than just the cold...
As the daughter of an alchemist, Petra Dee has faced all manner of
occult horrors - especially since her arrival in the small town of
Temperance, Wyoming. But she can't explain the creature now stalking the
backcountry of Yellowstone, butchering wolves and leaving only their
skins behind in the snow. Rumors surface of the return of Skinflint
Jack, a nineteenth-century wraith that kills in fulfillment of an
ancient bargain.
The new sheriff in town, Owen Rutherford, isn't helping matters. He's a
dangerously haunted man on the trail of both an unsolved case and a
fresh kill - a bizarre murder leading him right to Petra's partner
Gabriel. And while Gabe once had little to fear from the mortal world,
he's all too human now. This time, when violence hits close to home,
there are no magical solutions.
It's up to Petra and her coyote sidekick Sig to get ahead of both Owen
and the unnatural being hunting them all - before the trail turns
deathly cold.
