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Rabbit Moon
Northern Montana Territory. 1865.
Sear Cale. Double murderer. Believed to have absconded to British Columbia. One Albino wolf. Believed to have attacked and killed a settler family. And there ain't no such thing as an Albino wolf.
True Millen, ageing constable for the Hudson Bay Company, has been set to hunt a man. Michel 'Mitch' Boyer, Metis Indian, constable for the Hudson Bay Company, has been set to hunt a man.
In the aftermath of the civil war the northern border has become a haven for deserters and criminals lured by the promise of freedom and the gold strikes that pepper both sides of the Rockies where only vigilantes mete justice.
The constable's hunt will be trod in myth and madness. And they are not alone.The absconded murderer has aligned himself with a Salish Indian warrior, both of them seeking the illusory Albino wolf that cannot be, for revenge for their own fates dealt. And none if it is how it should be or what any of them expect.
All four men, their stories, the mythological, the real, circle together in the cold forest hills of British Columbia.
The hunt will be their last story. The story each has earned.
Part ancient allegory, part campfire tale, Rabbit Moon's setting is in the lands above and below the 49th parallel, between North Montana and British Columbia. It is in a time before statehood and after war, a divided land. A period of gold rushes, land grabs and the displacement of natives. It intends to explore the nature of manifest destiny, of dreamers and the deceptions and disappointments of ideals bitterly corrupted, and that redemption, fellowship, significance and honour are our timeless aspirations and, inevitably, always to be earned hard.
The author:
Mark Keating, writing as Robert Lautner, is the critically acclaimed author of The Road to Reckoning and The Draughtsman. As Mark Keating he is the author of the historical fiction series of The Pirate Devlin novels.
Sear Cale. Double murderer. Believed to have absconded to British Columbia. One Albino wolf. Believed to have attacked and killed a settler family. And there ain't no such thing as an Albino wolf.
True Millen, ageing constable for the Hudson Bay Company, has been set to hunt a man. Michel 'Mitch' Boyer, Metis Indian, constable for the Hudson Bay Company, has been set to hunt a man.
In the aftermath of the civil war the northern border has become a haven for deserters and criminals lured by the promise of freedom and the gold strikes that pepper both sides of the Rockies where only vigilantes mete justice.
The constable's hunt will be trod in myth and madness. And they are not alone.The absconded murderer has aligned himself with a Salish Indian warrior, both of them seeking the illusory Albino wolf that cannot be, for revenge for their own fates dealt. And none if it is how it should be or what any of them expect.
All four men, their stories, the mythological, the real, circle together in the cold forest hills of British Columbia.
The hunt will be their last story. The story each has earned.
Part ancient allegory, part campfire tale, Rabbit Moon's setting is in the lands above and below the 49th parallel, between North Montana and British Columbia. It is in a time before statehood and after war, a divided land. A period of gold rushes, land grabs and the displacement of natives. It intends to explore the nature of manifest destiny, of dreamers and the deceptions and disappointments of ideals bitterly corrupted, and that redemption, fellowship, significance and honour are our timeless aspirations and, inevitably, always to be earned hard.
The author:
Mark Keating, writing as Robert Lautner, is the critically acclaimed author of The Road to Reckoning and The Draughtsman. As Mark Keating he is the author of the historical fiction series of The Pirate Devlin novels.
361 pages, Paperback
Published August 30, 2019
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About the author
Mark Keating
19 books23 followersMark Keating is a new author of historical fiction, whose debut novel THE PIRATE DEVLIN was published by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK in February 2010 and by Grand Central Publishing in the US in July 2010. It draws on the wealth of tales from the Golden Age of Caribbean piracy with the emphasis on adventure and accuracy. No monsters, romance or romantic monsters. He was born in Enfield, North London and now lives in Windsor, Berkshire.
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