Bøger af Steven E. Wedel

This thrilling western adventure follows two bounty hunters, Jacob Wolf and Jerome Freeman, on their dangerous mission to capture Frank Dale and his band of outlaws. With huge bounties on their heads, the two hunters ride through unforgiving terrain, contending with other bounty hunters, bad weather, and an enemy that's more ruthless than any they've ever seen. The stakes are high as Frank Dale, once the victim of an Apache raid that killed his family, is now hell-bent on wiping out the Apache tribe. If you enjoyed the classic western, "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", you'll love the gritty adventure and the battle between good and evil that ensues in this second volume of The Travels of Jacob Wolf.

Almost fifteen years after the civil war between shapeshifters, Joey Woodman has been living an easy, protected life as the only living naturally born werewolf. But when Thomas McGrath, now a Pack assassin, goes rogue and decides to settle an old score, Joey, Thomas, and Skandar, the last surviving Old One, find themselves captives to a sadistic clan leader who is part of a coalition seeking to take control of the Pack. Kelley, Jenny, and Cerdwyn coordinate a rescue plan that has to take into account not just the shapeshifters opposing them, but also zealous humans seeking to destroy the creatures they see as abominations. They must also organize the defense of their home once they learn of an imminent attack by at least two other clans. While they prepare for battle, a rescue party searches the Louisiana swamps for their missing friends. Can Joey overcome his sheltered upbringing and become the leader others expect hime to be? If you enjoyed the intricate worldbuilding and thrilling action of The Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong, you will love The Werewolf Saga and First Born by Steven E. Wedel.

Once upon a time, Donnie Nelson was a bestselling author of fantasy novels. He had the fame, money, and career he had always dreamed about, but fame led to temptation, and Donnie surrendered to it, destroying his family. Then his mother died. Writer's block set in, and Donnie retreated to a new career as a used bookseller in the tiny Oklahoma town of Sagebrush.There he stayed, year after year, unable to write, his royalties drying up, living in the back room of his store, which lost money every month. Until he got a call from an old acquaintance who told him his high school creative writing teacher had died. Fighting his insecurities, Donnie made the drive home to attend the funeral of the woman who had ignited his love of writing.He returned to Sagebrush with two unwanted guests who turned his life upside down and just might pull him out of the shell he built around himself. He might even find happiness again in The Lost Pages Bookstore.

After being sent away by the girl he thought he was going to marry, young Jacob Wolf is ready to throw his life away in a blaze of glory at the first opportunity. However, his death wish gives him nerves of steel and he finds himself unscathed after his first deadly encounter. A local sheriff teams him up with an experienced bounty hunter and now Jacob is on the trail of outlaws, but hiding the fact he only wants a death that will make the papers and fill his old girlfriend with remorse.

Collected into one volume, the first four adventures of Tarod the Nine-Fingered, with the never-before-published essay "Writing Tarod." THE WAR LORDYoung Tarod wins a tournament and joins the court of King Damen of the wealthy, peaceful country of Minnea. But when the king and queen are killed the night of his victory celebration, Tarod must find the murderer and bring him to justice.THE PUPPET KINGSucceeding King Damen on the throne of Minnea, Tarod must do the bidding of Selith, the sorcerer who holds a mighty secret that could condemn Tarod to death. The young king must battle the wizard and his own boredom as he tries to learn to govern a civilized nation.THE NINE-FINGEREDEscaping Minnea with his life and weapons and little else, the wounded Tarod finds unexpected sanctuary in the home of an enemy's son. Healed and refocused, Tarod sets out to help the victims of his follies by rescuing travelers captured along the United Road. The quest takes him to the ancient city of Eun Sarns, where he must face horrors beyond his imagination.THE DEATH MERCHANTWhen he kills a poet singing a song mocking Tarod the Puppet-King, Minnea's former ruler is arrested and sentenced to hang. He meets new friends in prison who have a plan to escape, but the greater danger is the sword of Bolkar the Death Merchant, a bounty hunter who never brings anyone back alive.

Dena is recently divorced and ready for a new life in Benevolence, Oklahoma. She has a new job and an old house. The job is promising. The house is perfect, with plenty of space for her and her two young daughters.She really thought this first week in her new house was going to be the start of a new life.The house, however, had other ideas ...

After centuries of waiting, the Alpha has arrived.In the wilds of Mexico, the Old Ones gather around Shara as her third pregnancy nears its triumphant end. Meanwhile, Kiona and Chris hide Joey in the Arkansas swamps, hoping the treachery they fomented will not find them. In California, Fenris rages over missed opportunities.As Joey grows into adulthood confined to a swamp, Morrigan, his unknown sister, comes of age under the tutelage of Holle, an Old One with an agenda all her own. Trusts are broken and dangerous new alliances are formed as Shara and Thomas try to keep control of their powerful daughter.It may be too late, though. Morrigan is calling the Pack to gather.

Joey Woodman, the first werewolf created through natural birth, overcomes the serum administered by his mother every month and flees into the Montana forest as a wolf. Desperate to find her son, Shara sets out after Joey, but instead finds Thomas McGrath, who tells her that her son has been kidnapped by another werewolf who believes she was destined to be Mother of the Pack.With Joey missing, Ulrik's age-old enemy, Fenris, goes into action, stopping at nothing in his search for the one legend says will become Alpha.Believing Shara has abandoned him to return to life as a werewolf, Chris Woodman makes dangerous associations in an attempt to get Joey back.War is brewing and the Pack is drawing together in opposing camps, but old memories, forbidden love, and treachery threaten to tip the scales against Ulrik and tear apart every alliance he has made over the centuries.

Shara Wellington has always been shy, but what happened on prom night drove her deeper into herself. Professor Josef Ulrik, however, sees something in the girl and believes he knows what she needs to unlock her inner power. But accepting Ulrik's Gift of lycanthropy only opens up a world of new problems for Shara. Alienated from her home and family, Shara must learn to life as a wolf in the wild and as a woman with the urges of a beast. When it's learned that she possesses an ability no other werewolf in history has had, the Pack is divided, with one side seeing her as a savior and the other as an enemy that must be killed. Shara only wants to live a normal life with her new family But the Pack is gathering ...

In this touching and often humorous memoir, machinist, journalist, corporate writer, public relations hack, and author Steven E. Wedel talks about how he became a high school teacher and what those first 12 years in public education meant to him. From beginning his teaching career as a 40-year-old long-haired guy with an alternative certification to teaching Advanced Placement, Wedel tells it all, including how he decorated his room as a heavy metal horror show to battles with principals, lesson plans that worked, or didn't, and going viral with his "Open Letter to Parents and Lawmakers." Through it all, his love for his students is evident.

Dead ain't gone, and gone ain't dead.Harley Shaw's life is falling apart around him. His best pasture is ruined. His cattle are gone. His wife is gone. His daughter is gone. His sanity is slipping away, and there may be dead people haunting him.

When a young girl from eastern Oklahoma went missing in 1978, the community came together to search for her. One group of high school students and their teacher vanished the day of the search and were never seen again.This is their horrifying story.

SUMMER OF LOVESomething magical happened in the summer of 1978. Thirteen-year-old Robert Prince fell in love with Alia, a mysterious older woman who lived down the street.SUMMER OF HORRORSomething horrible and deadly happened between Robert, Alia, and his friends Scott and Tim. Something that would leave Robert scarred for the rest of his life.LIFETIME OF PAINUnable to forgive himself or to love anyone else after what happened when he was thirteen, Robert sinks into a world of masochism and despair, seeking redemption for the sins of his past.

Cody Treat has gotten used to living among the ruins of modern civilization. But when one of the thousands of ghosts following him finds a way to communicate their need for help, he learns that the end of the world was just the beginning of a fight for survival.Orphaned and alone after an apocalyptic meteor event followed by a plague, Cody roams the ruins of Oklahoma City looking for food and shelter from the gangs hoarding supplies and torturing other survivors. Crowds of ghostly figures mutely follow him, until one day the spirit of a girl about his age is able to write a message in the snow directing Cody to find her living sister, a young girl who can hear the ghosts but not see them. This begins the quest to find the third person who can speak to the dead. Time is short, though, as there is something coming from the east, something looking to harvest the energy of the trapped spirits.

Legend has it that on October 31 the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is thin and things that are bound in one realm or the other are allowed to pass between the two worlds. Children and devils roam the earth looking for treats or offering tricks. It is a cool, crisp, special time of the year. A time of change. A time for stories. "Unholy Womb" is the story of a young boy who finds more than he expects when he goes to carve his Halloween jack-o-lantern. In "The Halloween Feast" a man gets the opportunity to be reunited with his dead wife and daughter. Revenge is the theme in "SKN-3", a grisly story about an angry doctor out for a trophy. "Hungry is the Night" tells the tale of what happens when an ancient evil seeps out of an old well and engulfs a small town. In "Scream of Humanity" a pioneer doctor learns there may be something to those old wives' tales about child birth.

Ramsay Quarles is already a wanted man when he guns down a cheating gambler in a small Kansas town. Now the dead man's nephew, Jack, has decided Ramsay is his new guardian and guide to the western frontier.Meanwhile, Les Booker just wants to work his job as a foreman in a Chicago meatpacking plant, marry the girl he's been courting, and forget he used to be a Pinkerton man. The last thing he wants to do is try to track down his rich boss's runaway grandson. But his girl isn't who he thought she was, and if he wants to continue to see her, he has no choice but to do what Mr. Arrington demands.Ramsay, Jack, and Les are on a collision course, with a bounty hunter hot on Ramsay's trail and a clock running on Les's romantic future.

Lynette Cook knows about abuse. She learned it from her father and, later, had the lessons reinforced by the boyfriend she thought was her savior. Free at last from her own tormentors, Lynette now lives with her teenage daughter, Kari, in a small town in Oklahoma. Then one day she comes home from the grocery store to find her daughter's boyfriend and his two buddies raping Kari. Blinded by rage, Lynette shoots one of the boys and locks the other two in her storm cellar. Lynette surprises herself with the ease with which she disposes of the body during a record rainy season and smoothly lies to investigating police. But in the days that follow, Lynette must face the fact that her torture of the two captive boys is as cruel as the treatment she received at the hands of her father and ex-husband. Meanwhile, the date-rape drug has worn off, and Kari is wondering why her boyfriend won't return her calls. She has unfocused memories of partying with him and his friends and, although she can't pinpoint why, she blames her mom for whatever happened next that is keeping them apart. As Kari's memory sharpens, Lynette's unrelenting rage against men drives her to an ever-darker state of mind - until finally Kari learns the grisly truth. In a final showdown between mother, daughter, and boyfriend, a choice has to be made. Who will inherit the title of victim?

In this collection of short stories based on his acclaimed Werewolf Saga, author Steven E. Wedel reveals back stories about some of the major characters in the series while also introducing characters in unrelated stand-alone tales..Who made the Old Ones and why? How did Ulrik come to be the first werewolf born in the New World? Was Shara destined to become a werewolf? What happens when a werewolf has a toothache? Or when one places an ad looking for a mate? These questions and more are answered in Call to the Hunt.This is a can't-miss addition to The Werewolf Saga that fans of the series will want to add to their bookshelves.

Keith's mother is dead, but that doesn't mean she's stopped trying to help him turn his life around. His dad, however, doesn't see any reason he or Keith should stop drinking or using drugs.Ashley and her two best friends have never known real love. When the girls make a road trip into a larger city near their home on the Oklahoma plains, they stumble upon a book in an estate sale that might be the answer to their romantic problems.When the school's renowned bad boy approaches Ashley, she doesn't think there's any way she'd ever fall for Keith. As her friends use the grimoire to wreak havoc on the boys of the school who have mistreated them, Ashley can't help but wonder if Keith's interest is real or the result of the spells her friends claim to be creating.

Authorities said everyone was dead. When Milton arrived at the site of his church's Brazilian mission, everyone he knew was dead, or gone. The only person in the burned out village is a strange, beautiful, naked red-haired woman who is both wise and childlike.Milton decides to smuggle Amara home and continue his mission work with this one lost soul.Amara is more than she appears to be and she is about to shake the foundations of everything Milton believes to be true.A heartbreaking story of faith, forgiveness, and the foundation of religious belief. Can Milton learn and accept the truth before he loses everything and everyone he loves?

"[A]n amazing tale that introduces you to the innocence and curiosity of youth, the dangers around them, and leaves you thinking. Monsters DO exist. This story offers several 'monsters' - you decide who the real monsters are!" --Horror-Web No one denies that 18-year-old Katherine Cross was murdered in 1917. Her gravestone in Konawa, Oklahoma, bears the epitaph "Murdered by human wolves." This is her story, pieced together from the bits of fact left behind and held together with imagination and the information gleaned from a paranormal investigator. This based-on-a-true-story account of the murder of Katherine Cross introduces readers to the world of author Steven E. Wedel's Werewolf Saga and includes his essay "On the Trail of Werewolves: An Interview with Mary Franklin, Paranormal Researcher," which details the findings of her research in the Konawa cemetery where Katherine is buried. "[S]pooky and intriguing … Wedel lets his imagination run loose on [the] darker side, populating it with a clan of werewolf who are pagan, wild, bestial, and dare I say, pretty darn sexy." --The Horror Fiction Review

Andrew Clausing is a teacher who has lost nearly everything. His wife left him. His teenage daughter hates him. He drinks too much. The only things he has are a love of teaching, his relationship as a mentor to his students, and a secret affair with another teacher who happens to be married to a state senator. When one of his female students mistakes his kindness for romantic interest, Andrew is faced with losing the few things he has left in his life.

Over 35 years ago, Daniel bought his high school grilfriend Penny a pregnanacy test. He gave her a note asking her to circle Yes or No to tell him the results. She circled Yes, then disappearned from his life. "Life never gives you shit without taking someting in payment." Now, after a hard life that has left him confined to an assisted living center and battling COPD, a woman named Alicia claims she is the daughter Daniel thought Penny had aborted when she left him. "Life never gives you shit without taking someting in payment." As they await the DNA test results to determine whether or not Daniel and Alicia are related, old truths are explosed and new bonds are formed. But always, Daniel remembers the promise of his abusive father ... "Life never gives you shit without taking someting in payment."

Is your faith real if it's never tested? When Rev. Milton Agnew learns that his church's Brazilian mission has been mysteriously destroyed, he rushes to the rainforest to see for himself. His friends and the natives they went to convert are all dead or gone. But the village isn't empty. What he finds is a strange woman who says her name is Amara. Milton determines he will continue his mission work with this single unsaved soul, no matter how many laws of man he has to break in the process. Do you forgive me? Back home in Oklahoma City, Amara causes Milton to lose everything he thought he believed in. Everything but her. Until she goes too far. "Wedel's Amara's Prayer is a rare treat: a story of personal horror and personal hope that leads you through the rise and fall of one man and one family touched by supernatural temptation. More than that, however, it is a story of redemption. A powerful, glorious tale that is highly recommended." - James A. Moore, author of Blood Red and Serenity Falls

In this collection of short stories based on his acclaimed Werewolf Saga, author Steven E. Wedel reveals back story about some of the major characters in the series. Who made the Old Ones and why? How did Ulrik come to be the first werewolf born in the New World? Was Shara destined to become a werewolf? These questions and more are answered in these stories. This is s can't-miss addition to The Werewolf Saga that fans of the series will want to add to their bookshelves.

Amy ziet al haar hele leven visioenen. Soms van dingen die ze wil weten. Soms van dingen die gruwelijk zijn, zoals de dood van de vader van haar beste vriendin Courtney. Eén ding hebben de visioenen echter met elkaar gemeen: ze komen allemaal uit. Zonder uitzondering.Alan verhuist met zijn moeder naar Maine om zijn tante te steunen, die net weduwe is geworden. Zijn nichtje Courtney lijdt onder de verdrinkingsdood van haar vader en gelooft nog steeds dat hij weer zal opduiken. Ze denkt zelfs dat zijn geest bij hen is. Maar Alan heeft door zijn Navajo-achtergrond de nodige ervaring met geesten en voelt dat er iets niet klopt in huis.Courtney heeft iets opgeroepen uit de rivier. Iets dat beter onder water had kunnen blijven.New York Times bestsellerauteur Carrie Jones sloeg de handen in elkaar met fantasyschrijver Steven E. Wedel om deze huiveringwekkende, romantische en spannende YA-roman te schrijven.Carrie Jones is een Amerikaanse auteur die vooral fantasyboeken schrijft voor jongeren. Ze won hiermee verschillende prijzen en stond op de New York Times bestsellerlijst. Steven E. Wedel is voornamelijk gekend om zijn horrorverhalen voor volwassenen, maar schrijft ook voor jongeren, zoals nu met De geest in de rivier.