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The Gundersons: The Knolland Parables - Book One
Welcome to Knolland, America’s True West. Friendly place, farmers, ranchers and town-folk mostly get along… and the Apache have been quiet. When a Norwegian family is brutally attacked after years of peace, instead of dreaming of happiness, people again live in fear. Indian Bureau Agent Thaddeus Acton is sent to investigate whether the fatal scalping is the work of an Apache uprising or killers hired by business interests ready to profit from a reignited Indian War. But in Knolland, no truth is absolute nor any motive pure, or apparent fact what it seems.
Accompanied by Sheriff Keegan and Deputy Mike, Acton searches The Wilderness, a dense forest that separates the reservation from the town and is known to be haunted by spirits and primal forces of nature. Their only guide is Rita Dunbar, a rancher mistrusted by upright citizens for being an Indian Lover. How does she know the feral boy said to dwell in The Wilderness, whom the wolves and bears obey? What does the ritualistic mutilation of one of Acton’s suspects mean? Knowing those answers just like finding the men responsible for murdering the Gundersons may not just get you killed, but determine the future of Knolland.
The Gundersons’ is a taut odyssey traversing a surreal 19th century dreamscape… and the opening episode of The Knolland Parables, an Acid-Western series that is darkly comic, very gnarly, and as morally complex as the American soul.
Accompanied by Sheriff Keegan and Deputy Mike, Acton searches The Wilderness, a dense forest that separates the reservation from the town and is known to be haunted by spirits and primal forces of nature. Their only guide is Rita Dunbar, a rancher mistrusted by upright citizens for being an Indian Lover. How does she know the feral boy said to dwell in The Wilderness, whom the wolves and bears obey? What does the ritualistic mutilation of one of Acton’s suspects mean? Knowing those answers just like finding the men responsible for murdering the Gundersons may not just get you killed, but determine the future of Knolland.
The Gundersons’ is a taut odyssey traversing a surreal 19th century dreamscape… and the opening episode of The Knolland Parables, an Acid-Western series that is darkly comic, very gnarly, and as morally complex as the American soul.
77 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 26, 2024
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