The Shadow Wolf: Tales of the Abingdon Wolves

by Greg Lilly, Brian Bridgeforth (Illustrator), Marie Bridgeforth (Introduction)

A large shadow drifts through the town of Abingdon in the magical hours between night and day. Abbi, a young wolf pup, and her friends Daniel, Crow, and Butterfly, hear that the Screen Head leader Glow has rebooted. Will he try to steal the Wolf Crystal again? The Crystal is losing power. Is it Glow and the Screen Heads or a new threat in the form of a great shadow? The Shadow Wolf emerges and spreads fear and distrust among the wolf pack. Abbi tries to convince her pack that her friends are not a threat, but the suspicions and lies spread by the Shadow Wolf are. With the help of a wise-talking lightning bug named Sparky and the beautiful ghost of a 1920s flapper named Della, Abbi and her friends must team up with Glow and the Screen Heads to save the Wolf Crystal and the pack from the Shadow Wolf.

39 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 19, 2020

About the author

Greg Lilly grew up in Bristol, Virginia then lived in Charlotte, North Carolina. The rich storytelling tradition of the South captivated him and he began writing. He first turned to creating short stories after plot lines and characters emerged from the technical manuals he wrote for a large family-owned corporation. His first novel, Fingering the Family Jewels – a Derek Mason Mystery, grew from those Charlotte experiences.

To escape the city and find a slower pace, he relocated to Sedona, Arizona for several years. During that time, his novels Devil's Bridge and Under a Copper Moon chronicled adventures of the high desert—present and past.

Scalping the Red Rocks is the next novel in the Derek Mason Mystery series and unites the Derek Mason characters with the lead characters of Devil's Bridge.

Greg’s non-fiction book is Sunsets & Semicolons – a Field Guide to the Writer’s Life. In the book, he shares his experiences and techniques – things that worked, not in academia or in New York City, but in the real world of freelancing and query letters and book signings. He has presented workshops and served on panels at the College of William & Mary's Christopher Wren Association, the Virginia Festival of the Book, the Virginia Writers Club, the World Bank in Washington D.C., Malice Domestic, Bouchercon, and the Sedona Arts Center in Sedona, Arizona. The kernel of the book came from requests for his workshop handouts and notes.

His latest novel, Stray, follows a son searching for his womanizer father who left almost 30 years before, a daughter grasping for her distant mother, and the shadows cast on them by the Lost Colony of Roanoke and Virginia’s witch trials.

Greg is a freelance writer, magazine editor, as well as a former Arts & Culture commissioner for the City of Sedona, Arizona, for the Williamsburg Area Arts Commission, and for the Abingdon Arts Commission. He serves on the Virginia Commission for the Arts’ Advisory Panel. Today, he writes and lives in the historic town of Abingdon in Southwestern Virginia.

His next book is a historical True Crime from Arcadia Publishing's The History Press scheduled for release in the summer of 2024.