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Madeleiné Series #1
When the Wolf Loves
After his father’s death in London in 1796, Ryder Benedict travels to the New World to find answers to his past. He planned to be gone no longer than a year but two years later, in the company of six men from three different tribes who have all come together to help him, he finds himself in the wilderness of the Pacific northwest, far beyond the borders of the American, French and Spanish settlements. When he is attacked and injured by a wolf, a young white girl with extraordinary instincts saves his life. Named Esa-mogo'ne’ by the local Bannock, she takes Ryder to their village to heal and over a bitter winter Ryder learns of her tragic past and discovers a love that will endure his whole life.
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Sadie Conall
12 books32 followersThis author is also published under Quinn Carno.
I’ve been writing stories since I was a child. I'll read anything, but the book has to grab me from the first page and if I can achieve that in my own stories, then I think that’s when a little bit of magic happens.
I've written two series and co-authored one book.
The first series is Madeleine, a historical American frontier series of nine books which has some paranormal for those who love Native American folklore, spirit guides and spirit animals. The first book begins in 1799 in the pacific northwest of the New World where Ryder Benedict goes to find answers to his past. This is long before the west was settled by Europeans, when tribes still fought with bows and arrows and lances and when bison herds still roamed across the great plains and numbered in their millions. In this series you'll travel to England, where Europe is a powder keg due to the ambitions of Napoleon Bonaparte. If you love adventure in the old days of fur trappers, native Americans, some paranormal with spirit guides, then you may like these books There are six books already published with Book 7 due to be published late 2024 and Book 8 and 9 in early 2025. Most of these books are big reads with 400-530 pages long, filled with love and loss, ambition and greed, jealousy and hate and ultimately revenge.
Order of the series:
When the Wolf Loves
When the Wolf Hunts
When the Wolf Bites
When the Wolf Dreams
When the Wolf Breathes
When the Leaving is Hard
Book 7
Books 8 and 9 will be coming in early 2025.
These books are in KindleUnlimited.
My second series is two books in the escape west by wagon train series. This tells the adventures of two young women escaping west to start new lives, never expecting to find love on the way.
Order of the series:
Ella
Ruby
Both these books are in Amazon Prime and KindleUnlimited.
The book I co-wrote with my friend Carena McGregor is the first book in a series called Brides Bound for Oregon. I wrote this under the name Quinn Carno to keep this series separate from my Sadie Conall books. I hope to write some books using this name in a more modern genre some day soon, meanwhile Carena will carry on the series without me, due to the workload of my own books.
These books are in KindleUnlimited.
I also hope to start work on the Archard family in 2025 once I've put Ryder and Madeleine to rest, although I'm fine with that after nine books. You first met the Archard family in Ruby and I'm planning on writing three books in this series.
Order of Series:
Scarlett
Levi
Jed
Come visit me or join my newsletter at www.sadieconall.com or write to me at sadieconallauthor@gmail.com
I’ve been writing stories since I was a child. I'll read anything, but the book has to grab me from the first page and if I can achieve that in my own stories, then I think that’s when a little bit of magic happens.
I've written two series and co-authored one book.
The first series is Madeleine, a historical American frontier series of nine books which has some paranormal for those who love Native American folklore, spirit guides and spirit animals. The first book begins in 1799 in the pacific northwest of the New World where Ryder Benedict goes to find answers to his past. This is long before the west was settled by Europeans, when tribes still fought with bows and arrows and lances and when bison herds still roamed across the great plains and numbered in their millions. In this series you'll travel to England, where Europe is a powder keg due to the ambitions of Napoleon Bonaparte. If you love adventure in the old days of fur trappers, native Americans, some paranormal with spirit guides, then you may like these books There are six books already published with Book 7 due to be published late 2024 and Book 8 and 9 in early 2025. Most of these books are big reads with 400-530 pages long, filled with love and loss, ambition and greed, jealousy and hate and ultimately revenge.
Order of the series:
When the Wolf Loves
When the Wolf Hunts
When the Wolf Bites
When the Wolf Dreams
When the Wolf Breathes
When the Leaving is Hard
Book 7
Books 8 and 9 will be coming in early 2025.
These books are in KindleUnlimited.
My second series is two books in the escape west by wagon train series. This tells the adventures of two young women escaping west to start new lives, never expecting to find love on the way.
Order of the series:
Ella
Ruby
Both these books are in Amazon Prime and KindleUnlimited.
The book I co-wrote with my friend Carena McGregor is the first book in a series called Brides Bound for Oregon. I wrote this under the name Quinn Carno to keep this series separate from my Sadie Conall books. I hope to write some books using this name in a more modern genre some day soon, meanwhile Carena will carry on the series without me, due to the workload of my own books.
These books are in KindleUnlimited.
I also hope to start work on the Archard family in 2025 once I've put Ryder and Madeleine to rest, although I'm fine with that after nine books. You first met the Archard family in Ruby and I'm planning on writing three books in this series.
Order of Series:
Scarlett
Levi
Jed
Come visit me or join my newsletter at www.sadieconall.com or write to me at sadieconallauthor@gmail.com
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December 13, 2021
When The Wolf Loves
By Sadie Conall
DNRA
By Sadie Conall
DNRA
August 22, 2017
After reading this at night, I felt that I should be putting on buckeskin trousers and shift the next morning, rather than a t-shirt and skirt. For that is one of the strengths of this novel: the immersion in the Bannock (and Shoshone) clans and the place where they lived. I could feel the cold, taste the food, see the people.
There's also a pleasing emotional maturity about this that few adventure and/or romance books manage to achieve. Actions have consequences and ramifications; people respond in complex ways, not as stereotypes.
This really should have been picked up by a major publisher, and then, one hopes, a few of the niggles would be ironed out by a copy editor. There are several typos. Not loads, as in some works - this has been proofread, but not well enough. This jars at some crucial moments, e.g. on page 292: "Yet that moment was one of the loneliness in Madeleiné's life". Presumably, the word should have been 'loneliest'.
That quote shows up another problem. While the Native American sectins have been carefully researched, the French and English have not. I was startled to see 'Madeleine' with an acute accent on the final letter. It might be my knowledge at fault, but I've been unable to find any trace of this anywhere. If it is a pet name, that should have been mentioned. Sadly, the French city of Orléans has lost its accent. This is such a simple thing to check! And would a man brought up in England, in the 18th century, really say 'vest' for 'waistcoat'? It's possible that that was part of the modernisation of language to make the book more readable for the uneducated, but it jarred on me.
So that's why I knocked a star off.
I was lucky enough to receive this free from a Goodreads Giveaway in exchange for an honest review. I am always honest in my reviews, and I would't say that this was good if it were not.
The problems are small ones and the book as a whole was a delight. I look forward to the next one.
There's also a pleasing emotional maturity about this that few adventure and/or romance books manage to achieve. Actions have consequences and ramifications; people respond in complex ways, not as stereotypes.
This really should have been picked up by a major publisher, and then, one hopes, a few of the niggles would be ironed out by a copy editor. There are several typos. Not loads, as in some works - this has been proofread, but not well enough. This jars at some crucial moments, e.g. on page 292: "Yet that moment was one of the loneliness in Madeleiné's life". Presumably, the word should have been 'loneliest'.
That quote shows up another problem. While the Native American sectins have been carefully researched, the French and English have not. I was startled to see 'Madeleine' with an acute accent on the final letter. It might be my knowledge at fault, but I've been unable to find any trace of this anywhere. If it is a pet name, that should have been mentioned. Sadly, the French city of Orléans has lost its accent. This is such a simple thing to check! And would a man brought up in England, in the 18th century, really say 'vest' for 'waistcoat'? It's possible that that was part of the modernisation of language to make the book more readable for the uneducated, but it jarred on me.
So that's why I knocked a star off.
I was lucky enough to receive this free from a Goodreads Giveaway in exchange for an honest review. I am always honest in my reviews, and I would't say that this was good if it were not.
The problems are small ones and the book as a whole was a delight. I look forward to the next one.
January 19, 2015
Una historia preciosa.
Los personajes son muy reales, están muy desarrollados, con pasado, con bagaje, lo que hace que durante toda la historia resulten sinceros y creíbles. A pesar de que al principio el número de personajes que la autora nos presenta parece ser abrumador, en realidad luego no todos aparecen y la historia se sigue muy bien.
Como está contada desde el punto de vista de los dos protagonistas tenemos una visión muy completa de la historia, del romance, de lo que sienten o no sienten…de todo… Vamos presenciando todas las etapas de la relación (nada de insta-lust-love, gracias a dios!) y vamos viendo como los personajes se transforman.
Los detalles y las descripciones del entorno son realmente precisas y parecen ser (IMO) bastante acuradas, este es otro punto fuerte de la historia, los detalles descriptivos y el trasfondo histórico que está muy trabajado.
Lo único que no me ha gustado de la historia es que, aunque no termina con un cliffhanger si que deja muchas puertas abiertas para el segundo libro, que tendrá la misma pareja protagonista. Me hubiese encantado leer el final de esta historia, pero he de decir que soy muy quisquillosa con el tema de las sagas-series. También me hubiese gustado que el final hubiese sido diferente (lo que no quiere decir que no sea bonito y tenga su HEA) pero esto sólo es una preferencia personal.
En resumen, historia muy bonita, muy bien escrita, muy entretenida, con unos personajes que se hacen querer y totalmente recomendable.
Los personajes son muy reales, están muy desarrollados, con pasado, con bagaje, lo que hace que durante toda la historia resulten sinceros y creíbles. A pesar de que al principio el número de personajes que la autora nos presenta parece ser abrumador, en realidad luego no todos aparecen y la historia se sigue muy bien.
Como está contada desde el punto de vista de los dos protagonistas tenemos una visión muy completa de la historia, del romance, de lo que sienten o no sienten…de todo… Vamos presenciando todas las etapas de la relación (nada de insta-lust-love, gracias a dios!) y vamos viendo como los personajes se transforman.
Los detalles y las descripciones del entorno son realmente precisas y parecen ser (IMO) bastante acuradas, este es otro punto fuerte de la historia, los detalles descriptivos y el trasfondo histórico que está muy trabajado.
Lo único que no me ha gustado de la historia es que, aunque no termina con un cliffhanger si que deja muchas puertas abiertas para el segundo libro, que tendrá la misma pareja protagonista. Me hubiese encantado leer el final de esta historia, pero he de decir que soy muy quisquillosa con el tema de las sagas-series. También me hubiese gustado que el final hubiese sido diferente (lo que no quiere decir que no sea bonito y tenga su HEA) pero esto sólo es una preferencia personal.
En resumen, historia muy bonita, muy bien escrita, muy entretenida, con unos personajes que se hacen querer y totalmente recomendable.
May 5, 2024
enjoying this series! Madeline, Ryder and their story in historical America and France. drama, intrigue and passion. not the most polished or perhaps historically accurate at all times but addictive and entertaining with some fantasy elements. 3.5 🌟🐺
May 13, 2018
When the Wolf Loves (Madeleine Book 1)
By Sadie Conall
This book is very deserving of the 5 star rating, if there was a higher rating, that would be given. I could not believe it when the book ended.I guess that I wanted the book to go on and on.I loved the characters, too numerous, to name, except for Madeline and Ryder.I loved the plot, always kept interesting by the author.I love wolves and was pleased to read about the wolf and his part in the story . Also happy to read about different Native American tribes and their cultures. This book was worth reading. I am looking forward to the next book.
By Sadie Conall
This book is very deserving of the 5 star rating, if there was a higher rating, that would be given. I could not believe it when the book ended.I guess that I wanted the book to go on and on.I loved the characters, too numerous, to name, except for Madeline and Ryder.I loved the plot, always kept interesting by the author.I love wolves and was pleased to read about the wolf and his part in the story . Also happy to read about different Native American tribes and their cultures. This book was worth reading. I am looking forward to the next book.
April 13, 2021
Such a great story!
It was intriguing and educational. I had a hard time putting it down to get things done that I needed to do! It was heartwarming and made me cry several times, which isn't like me. I really got in to the characters and the story and the way of life they led. The bond between all of them kept me wanting to keep reading to see what happens next. Can't wait to read the other stories that follow!
It was intriguing and educational. I had a hard time putting it down to get things done that I needed to do! It was heartwarming and made me cry several times, which isn't like me. I really got in to the characters and the story and the way of life they led. The bond between all of them kept me wanting to keep reading to see what happens next. Can't wait to read the other stories that follow!
November 11, 2021
Girl living alone finds comfort with a wolf and an injured hunter
A man and woman from vastly different worlds find mutual love. He is early on besotted but she takes almost the whole book to sort out her feelings. Fascinating background on Native American tribal beliefs and daily traditions
A man and woman from vastly different worlds find mutual love. He is early on besotted but she takes almost the whole book to sort out her feelings. Fascinating background on Native American tribal beliefs and daily traditions
April 18, 2022
A refreshing and well written book.
This was such a different and attention grabbing book that I found myself thinking about it off and on All day. I love history and the presentation of the Pacific Northwest and the native American culture in the late 1700's was fascinating and well written. Can't wait to read volume 2 !
This was such a different and attention grabbing book that I found myself thinking about it off and on All day. I love history and the presentation of the Pacific Northwest and the native American culture in the late 1700's was fascinating and well written. Can't wait to read volume 2 !
April 25, 2021
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The characters were strong but they had their secret vulnerabilities. The plot moved along quickly, there were no slow areas.I would recommend this book to those who enjoy romances, historical novels,and Western novels.
May 17, 2022
Fascinating Story
I love this story based on true events. The challenges of the early west and the stealing of the indigenous peoples land and life. The story is about life before that happened. Truly fascinating.
I love this story based on true events. The challenges of the early west and the stealing of the indigenous peoples land and life. The story is about life before that happened. Truly fascinating.
January 22, 2019
Good read
Kept me wanting to read,wanting how Madeleine came to the New world.Wanted to know if the wolf left her and she left for London
Kept me wanting to read,wanting how Madeleine came to the New world.Wanted to know if the wolf left her and she left for London
January 30, 2020
Love it !!
I truly enjoyed this story. This is my first Sadie Consol book. And won't be my last. I highly recommend this book !!
I truly enjoyed this story. This is my first Sadie Consol book. And won't be my last. I highly recommend this book !!
October 25, 2020
I have fallen in love with this Author!
Amazing story and unforgettable characters. I am so excited that this is a series, can't wait to start the next book. Highly recommend this.
Amazing story and unforgettable characters. I am so excited that this is a series, can't wait to start the next book. Highly recommend this.
November 20, 2020
Moving
You will be spellbound, you will learn of native American tribes and culture. You will want more. Sit and enjoy.
You will be spellbound, you will learn of native American tribes and culture. You will want more. Sit and enjoy.
October 18, 2021
Beautiful Book
This is one of the best books I've read in a long time. Madeleine's relationship with her wolf brought me to tears.
This is one of the best books I've read in a long time. Madeleine's relationship with her wolf brought me to tears.
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