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Mountain Man #1.5
Homecoming
Tom has returned safely to Emery with Kristy and her son Skyler.
Now he prepares to share his mountain home, keenly aware that it's little more than a cave in the side of a cliff that he's barely fixed up to his humble standards of comfort. But he has his dream of building a ranch in his valley and securing a future of comfort and prosperity. With a new family, he hopes.
Kristy is unsure of her decision to join Tom in the mountains. It's not a life she ever wanted, but she's determined to give it a try for his sake. And for the sake of her friends the Hendricksons, who have joined her up in the mountains and are struggling to recover from the trauma of their captivity in Newpost. Hard as she tries to help them, she knows only time can heal some wounds. If they can be healed at all.
It'll take hard work and sacrifice to make their new life work. Neither are strangers to those things, but are some sacrifices too great to ask of a mountain man used to being on his own, or a young woman facing such a difficult and lonely way of living?
Now he prepares to share his mountain home, keenly aware that it's little more than a cave in the side of a cliff that he's barely fixed up to his humble standards of comfort. But he has his dream of building a ranch in his valley and securing a future of comfort and prosperity. With a new family, he hopes.
Kristy is unsure of her decision to join Tom in the mountains. It's not a life she ever wanted, but she's determined to give it a try for his sake. And for the sake of her friends the Hendricksons, who have joined her up in the mountains and are struggling to recover from the trauma of their captivity in Newpost. Hard as she tries to help them, she knows only time can heal some wounds. If they can be healed at all.
It'll take hard work and sacrifice to make their new life work. Neither are strangers to those things, but are some sacrifices too great to ask of a mountain man used to being on his own, or a young woman facing such a difficult and lonely way of living?
185 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 30, 2019
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About the author
Nathan Jones
31 books31 followersMy name is Nathan Jones. I write mainly in the post-apocalyptic and science fiction genres. My most recently completed project is The Challenge, first book of the post-apocalyptic No More Content series, a collaboration with my brother Seth Jones. My next project is Mythas, first book of the fantasy adventure series Band of Outcasts.
I've been a longtime reader of post-apocalyptic fiction, and like to explore various scenarios in which disasters could occur. One interest has been observing just how fragile our modern life is, and how little it would take to send us back to a low tech existence that people in general no longer possess the knowledge or skills to survive in. That interest inspired me to write and publish my completed post-apocalyptic series Best Laid Plans, comprising the five books Fuel, Shortage, Invasion, Reclamation, and Determination, and to build on that story with the completed Nuclear Winter series, which begins shortly after Best Laid Plans ends and includes the four books First Winter, First Spring, Chain Breakers, and Going Home, as well as the standalone novel Fallen City.
Outside the Best Laid Plans world I've written the completed post-apocalyptic Mountain Man series, with the novels Badlands, Homecoming, Homeland, Mountain War, Final Stand, and Lone Valley. I also have the completed post-apocalyptic Isolation series with Shut In, Going Out, Starting Anew, and Holding On. My current post-apocalyptic series is No More Content, with the recently released first book The Challenge.
I've also been a longtime reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy, with an equally deep love of those two genres. This has inspired multiple projects, the most recently completed being my science fiction novel Caretakers, Book Two of the Stag Privateers series, sequel to Last Stand. My other science fiction story is Boralene, Book One of the Stellar Merger series.
The stories I've written in the Young Adult Fantasy genre have now been moved over from another pen name to be available alongside my other books. These books include the completed The Watchers trilogy with Undying Heights, Ithel's Library, and Deep Dwelling, the completed The Protectorate series with Corsairs, Revenants, Invaders, and Shipwrights, and the standalone children's fairy tale Firefly Girl.
I've been a longtime reader of post-apocalyptic fiction, and like to explore various scenarios in which disasters could occur. One interest has been observing just how fragile our modern life is, and how little it would take to send us back to a low tech existence that people in general no longer possess the knowledge or skills to survive in. That interest inspired me to write and publish my completed post-apocalyptic series Best Laid Plans, comprising the five books Fuel, Shortage, Invasion, Reclamation, and Determination, and to build on that story with the completed Nuclear Winter series, which begins shortly after Best Laid Plans ends and includes the four books First Winter, First Spring, Chain Breakers, and Going Home, as well as the standalone novel Fallen City.
Outside the Best Laid Plans world I've written the completed post-apocalyptic Mountain Man series, with the novels Badlands, Homecoming, Homeland, Mountain War, Final Stand, and Lone Valley. I also have the completed post-apocalyptic Isolation series with Shut In, Going Out, Starting Anew, and Holding On. My current post-apocalyptic series is No More Content, with the recently released first book The Challenge.
I've also been a longtime reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy, with an equally deep love of those two genres. This has inspired multiple projects, the most recently completed being my science fiction novel Caretakers, Book Two of the Stag Privateers series, sequel to Last Stand. My other science fiction story is Boralene, Book One of the Stellar Merger series.
The stories I've written in the Young Adult Fantasy genre have now been moved over from another pen name to be available alongside my other books. These books include the completed The Watchers trilogy with Undying Heights, Ithel's Library, and Deep Dwelling, the completed The Protectorate series with Corsairs, Revenants, Invaders, and Shipwrights, and the standalone children's fairy tale Firefly Girl.
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March 29, 2021
I was very disappointed in this book. In general, I've liked NJ's work and even gave the first book in this series 4 stars. I couldn't even finish this one. It is basically a romance novel gone bad.
A third of the way into it, I really started to dislike the female lead - she turned out to be the whiny, self-righteous, demanding Lucy from "Peanuts". And the fact the male lead put up with her bullying and harassment made me lose respect for his character.
Toward the beginning of the story they engaged in an argument that ran on for at least the next third of the book. It was way too much drama without action for me. I started scanning pages just to see if they ever stopped arguing. I finally gave up.
I'll try other Nathan Jones books but definitely don't recommend this one.
A third of the way into it, I really started to dislike the female lead - she turned out to be the whiny, self-righteous, demanding Lucy from "Peanuts". And the fact the male lead put up with her bullying and harassment made me lose respect for his character.
Toward the beginning of the story they engaged in an argument that ran on for at least the next third of the book. It was way too much drama without action for me. I started scanning pages just to see if they ever stopped arguing. I finally gave up.
I'll try other Nathan Jones books but definitely don't recommend this one.
September 16, 2019
An NJ. SYFW. (After the Big War) Western Action Adventure (H) (ABN) (MMB -2)
NJ. has penned the second novel in the Mountain Man series which begins with the rescue of people from a camp. The men responsible for the rescue form a wagon train and head away from the fall out zones. The leader has established himself as a father and potential husband and the families he is leading follow him into the Mountain talkies along the Mexican Border to settle in caves that the leader had established for families to survive. This is an excellent read for the genre.....DEHS
NJ. has penned the second novel in the Mountain Man series which begins with the rescue of people from a camp. The men responsible for the rescue form a wagon train and head away from the fall out zones. The leader has established himself as a father and potential husband and the families he is leading follow him into the Mountain talkies along the Mexican Border to settle in caves that the leader had established for families to survive. This is an excellent read for the genre.....DEHS
November 10, 2020
I will admit. I did not finish. I didn't read 20 pages. I had to stop. I wanted to read it, but if I ever read "flaxen-haired woman" again I'm going to scream. It came up about 1,000 times in the first book. If you can live with hearing "flaxen-haired woman" on every other page, they you may like the book.
June 11, 2021
Disappointed
After the first book in this series, I was looking forward to a storyline that built on well from an incredible survival adventure. Instead I was disappointed in the nonsensical attempt of building the story into a clumsy romance novel that felt like reading through sandpaper. I won't be moving onto a third book.
After the first book in this series, I was looking forward to a storyline that built on well from an incredible survival adventure. Instead I was disappointed in the nonsensical attempt of building the story into a clumsy romance novel that felt like reading through sandpaper. I won't be moving onto a third book.
February 4, 2021
Not quite as exciting as book 1
Wraps up some of the plots from book 1 but not quite as exciting. There is some worry when he picks up the treasure but keeping it hidden in book 3 will be a challenge.
Wraps up some of the plots from book 1 but not quite as exciting. There is some worry when he picks up the treasure but keeping it hidden in book 3 will be a challenge.
January 24, 2020
Another great book by Nathan Jones !
I loved it ! Great characters and the plot is suspenseful. I will definitely be reading more of this author's books!
I loved it ! Great characters and the plot is suspenseful. I will definitely be reading more of this author's books!
February 5, 2020
Good, except
Kristy is a selfish, stupid, b**ch. I guess Tom has problems with self esteem, so puts up with the way she treats him, but I'd have left her in the badlands.
Kristy is a selfish, stupid, b**ch. I guess Tom has problems with self esteem, so puts up with the way she treats him, but I'd have left her in the badlands.
February 7, 2021
Wow! Excellent story. Well developed characters.
February 19, 2021
Fine read
More of a romance novel this time the survival, but it gives hits of a future war to come. Spoilers here is a pregnancy in someone's life nice afternoon read.
More of a romance novel this time the survival, but it gives hits of a future war to come. Spoilers here is a pregnancy in someone's life nice afternoon read.
September 12, 2021
Not finished
Because the author has a character blow up with unreasonable ultimatums all the the time, with no back up in her. Not reading this anymore
Because the author has a character blow up with unreasonable ultimatums all the the time, with no back up in her. Not reading this anymore
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