Ryder: a boy alone a short story

by Sadie Conall

This short story of Ryder will now be included in the Collection of Short Stories, the ninth and last book in the Madeleine series due out in 2024.

This particular short story started off as a freebie some years ago for new readers when they signed up for my newsletter. Then I added it to the end of When the Wolf Loves as a freebie, now its joining my book of short stories.

The story begins in 1778 when Ryder is only eight years old and living on the Corrigan ranch. For those readers familiar with the Madeleine series, you’ll know this was a time in his life when he was desperately unhappy. He’s surrounded by change and opportunities, but all he longs for is to be home with the ones he loves, except he has been betrayed by a man he loved like a father.

38 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 31, 2018

About the author

This 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