There will be a reckoning, one that will push friendships to the limit and force Elka to confront the dark memories of her past. Upon finding this out, she flees into a scarred wilderness to find her real parents but neither the man, Trapper, nor the law on his tail, aren’t letting her go that easily.

But Lyon is never far behind – and she’s not the only one following Elka’s every move. The Wolf Road is about Elka, a young girl who discovers the man who raised her, is a killer. Even worse, Magistrate Lyon is hot on his trail, and she wants to talk to Elka.Įlka flees into the vast wilderness, determined to find her true parents. The Wolf Road is an intimate cat-and-mouse tale of revenge and redemption, played out against a vast, unforgiving landscapetold by an indomitable young heroine fighting to escape her past and rejoin humanity. Her Trapper – Kreagar Hallet – is wanted for murder. So when Elka sees the Wanted poster in town, her simple existence is shattered. But Elka has learned everything she needs to survive from the man she calls Trapper, the solitary hunter who took her in when she was just seven years old. Since the Damn Stupid turned the clock back on civilization by centuries, the world has been a harsher place. What do you do when the man who gave you everything turns out to be a killer? Perfect for fans of STATION ELEVEN by Emily St. And I expect that I will for a good long while.A debut literary thriller from an incredible new voice. The wild don’t give up it’s forever and so was I.” Inner fire, honest vulnerability, and an endearing sense of humor, make Elka a remarkable character and since I finished The Wolf Road I have missed her. In her debut novel THE WOLF ROAD (JCrown), author and managing editor at London’s Titan Books Beth Lewis introduces us to a world decimated by an unnamed, apocalyptic event and inhabited by desperate people accustomed to hunting, tracking, and killing to survive. The wild keeps going till it don’t have strength in its muscles and bones. On her journey, Elka’s wits are put to the test time and again, but she is a child of the wilderness and lives by its rules, “You ever see a bear jump off a cliff ‘cause life handed him a few rough draws? No, you don’t.

Once there Elka learns horrifying things about the man she thought of as her daddy and sets off immediately to distance herself from him and try to find her parents. Elka is raised in isolation amid the wilderness until, at age eighteen, she ventures into town for the first time. After a devastating storm, a scrappy young tomboy is taken in by a strange tattooed backwoodsman who names her Elka. Long after a cold war mis-step has turned back the clock, gold rush fever and vigilante justice are once again a way of life.

An Amazon Best Book of July 2016: Beth Lewis’ debut novel, The Wolf Road, is a brilliant amalgam of literary thriller and gritty western.

The wolf road by beth lewis