The Killing Breed

Yakima Henry has been dealt more than his share of trouble—even for a half-white, half- Indian in the west. Now he’s running a small Arizona horse ranch with his longtime love, Faith, and thinks he may have finally found his share of peace and prosperity. But his violent past is about to come calling. Bill Thornton still carries the wound from where Faith—once his most valuable “entertainer”—shot him just before being carried away by that low-down breed Yakima. And the roadhouse proprietor, suffering from a bad case of blood poisoning, still carries a heart full of hatred for the both of them. That’s why he’s sent a gang of sadistic bounty-hunters to ventilate Yakima and bring Faith back to him. And that’s why Yakima’s long-awaited peace will have to come at the end of a long, hard killing trail.

As the United States tries to recover from the War Between the States, the city of Philadelphia is undergoing changes of its own. But when Civil War veteran-turned-detective Wilton McCleary searches for a valuable dog and a missing child, he is introduced to another side of the Quaker City where cruelty is cheap and the secrets of the past are best left undisturbed.

The day before Nathaniel Shade was set to be married, he and his adopted Cherokee brother, Tom, were going on one last hunt to celebrate. Neither knew that while they were stalking deer in the deep woods of Harkers Town, South Carolina, an ancient evil would sweep through changing their lives forever. When Nathaniel returns home to find his town destroyed and his soon-to-be wife missing, he will have to find the courage to track her down. With the help of his family and friends, Nathaniel will be forced to face beasts that feed under a full moon.

SADDLE UP FOR A HARD RIDE IN THE WILD WEST. Yakima Henry has been dealt more than his share of trouble - even for a half-white, half-Indian in the west. Now he's running a small Arizona horse ranch with his longtime love, Faith, and thinks he may have finally found his share of peace and prosperity. But a man from both their pasts is coming - with vengeance on his mind. "Hooks you instantly with sin-soaked villains and a compelling hero. Yakima Henry has a heart of gold and an Arkansas toothpick." - Mike Baron, author of Florida Man.

In this original and provocative book, Colin Dayan tackles head-on the inexhaustible world, at once tender and fierce, of dogs and humans. We follow the tracks of dogs in the bayous of Louisiana, the streets of Istanbul, and the humane societies of the United States, and in the memories and myths of the humans who love them. Dayan reorients our ethical and political assumptions through a trans-species engagement that risks as much as it promises. She makes a powerful case for questioning what we think of as our deepest-held beliefs and, with dogs in the lead, unsettles the dubious promises of liberal humanism. Moving seamlessly between memoir, case law, and film, Dayan takes politics and animal studies in a new direction—one that gives us glimpses of how we can think beyond ourselves and with other beings. Her unconventional perspective raises hard questions and renews what it means for any animal or human to live in the twenty-first century. Nothing less than a challenge for us to confront violence and suffering even in the privileged precincts of modernity, this searing and lyrical book calls for another way to think the world. Theoretically sophisticated yet aimed at a broad readership, With Dogs at the Edge of Life illuminates how dogs—and their struggles—take us beyond sentimentality and into a form of thought that can make a difference to our lives.

This book is fiction. The story that inspired it was not. In 1990, a box of very old documents was found on a small farm in the west of Ireland. They had been stored for well over a hundred years and told an incredible story of suffering, of love and of courage. In 1846, a young couple met during the worst days of the Great Irish Famine. The Killing Snows is a way to imagine what led to their meeting and what followed from it.

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