Nothing Wild is Lost Forever.
A post-apocalyptic Western about love and trust in a world where humans can't help themselves but meddle and nature always finds a way.
Fifteen years after The Pulse killed the machines and most of the people, Newt packs mules through a forest the tigers took back. She has survived it alone by never needing anyone — until the one thing she cannot outride turns out to be love.
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No Road but the Wild
The Muleskinner Chronicles IA Post-Apocalyptic Western
In the aftermath of The Pulse, technology is dead—and most of humanity with it. The forest has reclaimed what was hers.
Tigers now rule where humans once stood. Lawlessness spreads like rot. And deep beneath the ferns and towering cedars, something ancient is waking.
Newt rides the ruins as a muleskinner—alone, unflinching, shaped by a world that devours the weak. But when love finds her, and friendship takes root, Newt sees the world for what it is—and what it could be. To protect those she's come to cherish, she must risk the one thing she's always kept safe: her heart.
- A woman alone on the trail, and good at it.
- Mules, weather, and a forest the tigers took back.
- A slow burn that never goes soft.
- Written by someone who packs the same park.
For readers of The Dog Stars, The Postman, Parable of the Sower and Lonesome Dove.
To love was to risk being known. And to risk being known was to risk everything.
No Road but the Wild, chapter 57
RM Peacock
RM Peacock is an Air Force veteran, goat dairy farmer, cheesemaker, and horse packer. She lives against a shadow of the wilderness, where coyotes vie for existence and eagles battle osprey for the sky. Her writing explores the sacred tension between humans and the natural world—stories of grit, grace, and the quiet power of survival.
4.9
out of 5, from 32 ratings on Amazon
- 387 pages
- Published May 2025
- In Kindle Unlimited
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