Wilderness Fiction

Sienna Naples's family has taken care of their wild Idaho land for generations and Sienna can't imagine any other life. But at Christmastime, with her parents gone and her painful marriage finally over, it's full of memories… and incredibly lonely. Until a tall, handsome stranger and a little girl walk into her life and suddenly the holidays are alive again.

An Adventure Story in the Heart of Alaska. Jack’s idyllic Alaskan sanctuary is interrupted when a lost, half-starved woman shows up at his favorite fishing spot on the last day of summer. Soon after, Jack is shocked to learn that his beloved pet wolves are not wolves at all. To complicate matters, he might lose his homestead he spent years building, and the nearby townspeople are in trouble. How will he save his home, his friends, and the nearby town?

Terpsichore can't wait to follow in Laura Ingalls Wilder's footsteps...now she just has to convince her mom. It's 1934, and times are tough for their family. To make a fresh start, Terpsichore’s father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting them from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska. Their new home is a bit of a shock - it's a town still under construction in the middle of the wilderness, where the residents live in tents and share a community outhouse. But Terpsichore’s not about to let first impressions get in the way of this grand adventure.

3:47 a.m. That's when they come for Wren Clemmens. She's hustled out of her house and into a waiting car, then a plane, and then taken on a forced march into the desert. This is what happens to kids who've gone so far off the rails, their parents don't know what to do with them anymore. This is wilderness therapy camp. Eight weeks of survivalist camping in the desert. Eight weeks to turn your life around. Yeah, right.

Eleven-year-old Zach Feather can't wait to go on his first pheasant hunting trip, especially when he learns his parents have a surprise for him—a new bird dog! The family travels across the state from the Cherokee reservation in eastern Oklahoma to hunt pheasant on a relative's ranch.

After the loss of his beloved wife, Mahkel found himself nearing the end of his own life: everything around him reminded him of her, and an existence without her gave him little else to live for. That is, besides the urge. His interest in the intricate dreams of a darkness-filled forest coincided with the undeniable allure he had in the dense clouds that loomed in the distance; the feeling that pulled him towards their haunting uncertainty was enough to convince him to leave the security of his home for one last adventure into the unknown, deformity and all. Once into the space, he found ...

This is the second audiobook in the "Wilderness Series". Up in the Rockies, where a man could live free, Nathaniel King and a rugged mountain man named Shakespeare McNair head for a rendezvous of trappers and fur traders.

Dave is 14 years old, living with his family in a cabin on Oregon's Mount Hood. Dave will soon enter high school, with adulthood and a future not far off - a future away from his mother, father, his precocious younger sister, and the wilderness where he's lived all his life. And Dave is not the only one approaching adulthood and its freedoms that summer. Martin, a pine marten (of the mustelid family), is leaving his own mother and siblings and setting off on his own as well. As Dave and Martin set off on their own adventures, their lives, paths, and trails will cross.

William’s life had been tragically altered as a youth, now his life is about to change once again. William thought that he and his little brother could now live in relative peace, using their gifts in secret while working on the ranch they stumbled upon as children. However, his existence will become jeopardized, and he will have to find a way to make it through more tragedy. Zane was neglected by his father, pampered by his mother; the one connection he craved was with William, but the youth’s younger brother prevented it.

Mesmerizing, LOVE'S GLORY delivers the same richly descriptive settings, breathtaking action, and emotional sincerity that Wiley's readers have come to expect from her other novels in the American Wilderness Series, Wilderness Hearts Series, and Wilderness Dawning Series. In the fall of 1810, Allison Forbes has just inherited her father's prosperous Virginia plantation. Her father's last wish was that she visit her Aunt Catherine Wyllie in Kentucky before she decides if she should keep the plantation. She intends to keep it but honors her promise to her father. Her journey to Kentucky is ...

When her emotionally-abusive ex flees the country to escape arrest for blackmailing other politicians, it’s actually a relief—a chance to reclaim her life. But retreating to the mountain house gifted by her mother, she’s met by hostility from the nearby town. The locals blame Erin for her ex’s corrupt actions that led to the construction of a private prison, drawing gangs, violence, and death.

Step into the untamed wilderness of 1824 Kentucky, where courage and danger walk side by side. SHERIFF’S VALOR captures the bravery and determination of men pitted against the country’s first serial killers. Against the backdrop of the Kentucky frontier, a land where whispers of history still echo through the tall trees, this breathtaking American historical novel is the latest release from Amazon bestselling and award-winning author Dorothy Wiley. The Harpe Gang, led by cold-blooded Micajah Harpe, are vicious predators with heartless intentions. They roam the countryside leaving a ...

🕯️ Some creatures hide because they fear us. This one hides because it remembers what we did. 🕯️ Emma first heard the whoop when she was twelve — a deep, wild sound echoing through the Ice Caves of Ellenville, New York. Then the government closed the trail. Her best friend vanished. And the stories stopped. Decades later, with two kids of her own, Emma returns to find a different town. Gentrified. Polished. Touristy. The trails have reopened. The locals smile too tightly. And her daughter is drawing red-eyed figures that look disturbingly familiar. What Emma uncovers beneath the...

"Wilderness," a darkly intriguing short story first published as an e-book original, was written as prelude to Dean Koontz’s novel of mystery, suspense, and strange wonder - Innocence.

In each of these tales, Margaret Atwood deftly illuminates the single instant that shapes a whole life: In a few brief minutes we watch as characters progress from the vulnerabilities of adolescence through the passions of youth into the precarious complexities of middle age. By superimposing the past on the present, Atwood paints interior landscapes shaped by time, regret, and life's lost chances, endowing even the banal with a sense of mystery.

After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been dreading has arrived: Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles crime family, has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town and is minutes away from kidnapping them. They barely escape in a small plane, but gunfire hits the fuel line. The pilot, a man who has been raising them as his own, manages to crash land in the middle of the Montana wilderness. The siblings hike deep into the woods, searching desperately for safety—unaware of the severity of the approaching storm.

Is this journey’s end . . .or just the beginning?Toklo, Kallik, Lusa, and Ujurak have finally reached the Last Great Wilderness, the legendary bear paradise they’ve been searching for. But while his companions think they’ve come to the end of their long journey, Ujurak feels a deep unrest. Is this truly where they¹re meant to be?

It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past, for Jake has Alzheimer's.

The wild Rocky Mountains in 1828 held many dangers and challenges for those daring enough to enter. On a hunting trip, young Nathaniel King stumbles upon a disgraced Crow warrior.

A young woman leaves her parent's home for the twelve hour drive home, with her German Shepherd Sarge along. A horrible storm and a downed tree force her car off the road and down a steep mountain side where it crashes into a tree, far from the sight of the road. Trapped in the car, her only hope of rescue is Sarge and his military training while serving with troops in Iraq. It's a daunting journey to find a way back up to the road, and he faces many challenges along the way. This is an amazing story of one dog's determination to save the woman he loves before it's too late.