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Having developed an impressive reputation for his many novels and non-fiction works, Richard Wagamese now presents a collection of stunning poems ranging over a broad landscape. These are Medicine teachings told from the experience of one who lived and still lives them. He also describes his life on the road when he repeatedly ran away at an early age, and the beatings he received when the authorities tried “to beat the Indian right out of me.” Yet even in the most desperate situations, Wagamese shows us Canada as seen through the eyes and soul of a well-worn traveler.

"End of the line!" The stagecoach driver's shout sent a chill down Holly Lambeth's spine. What an ominous sound! Was Riverbend, Oregon, to be the end of the line for her? She had come West to escape the swirling gossip about her broken engagement. She had come to escape the humiliation of being...

Amelia Harrington has known nothing but abuse from her rich and powerful father. Her last beating leaves her with the knowledge that if she stays ─ he’ll kill her. She flees, not knowing how she’ll survive. Raised as a pretend princess, she doesn’t even know how to wash dishes. Determined to live a life free of pain, fortune leads her to a job serving at a train station in Colorado. What she finds is cruel jealousy, the first friends she’s ever had, and a place she feels she finally belongs. Town banker Branson McKane grew up in a wealthy, powerful, loving family, but it wasn’t ...

Where Jim’s blood fell, a legend was born. Three years after Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the boy who once chased freedom down the Mississippi returns to its banks a changed man. When racists murder his closest friend, Jim, Huck’s laughter drowns in blood, and something ancient in the river answers his grief. By moonlight, the Mississippi becomes his weapon. By dawn, it whispers his name: The River Reaper. One by one, Huck hunts the men who took Jim’s life, planters, preachers, sheriffs, each death marked by the same blood-carved rune. As legend grows, so does the horror: a ...

A collection of poems inspired by a time of uncertainty, purpose, youth, and question. Hazy future. I'm not sure that I know anymore, just what’s fair, what's right at all. There's a long way to go on this open road, at the mercy of all the world may throw. I'm not sure that I feel anymore. When my home is gone in misty stories, my body is broken by men I don't know. Sometimes I feel like a puppet, in a loser’s show. I'm not sure of what I do anymore, though I've been avoiding it for so long. The reason’s lost, why I go on. Can I build it back, when I keep getting it wrong?

Jolie Gentil has sworn off butting into other people’s business. To those who know her, it sounds as far-fetched as finding used bubble gum on Mars. Her life revolves around her husband Scoobie, her twins, appraising the occasional house, and helping run the Cozy Corner B&B. Nothing could drag Jolie into solving crimes. Really. Except maybe a request from the most unlikely source. Sergeant Morehouse is convinced his nephew is not a runaway. Something had terrified the teenager, but before Morehouse could figure it out, Kevin was gone. Jolie has a soft spot for Kevin, who helped ...