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The Muleskinner Chronicles I

No Road but the Wild

A 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.

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From the book

  • This is the story of those who refused to become ghosts.

    The Link
  • Skills were worth more than histories. A person was judged by what they could do, not by who they had been before.

    Chapter 2
  • Scars like this, he thought, were the most honest thing about a person. They didn’t lie.

    Chapter 49

The details

Series
The Muleskinner Chronicles, book 1
Genre
Post-apocalyptic Western
Length
387 pages (paperback)
Published
May 2025
Formats
Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, paperback
ISBN (paperback)
979-8-9985153-1-6
ISBN (ebook)
979-8-9985153-0-9
Cover art
Garth Graham

For readers of The Dog Stars, The Postman, Parable of the Sower and Lonesome Dove.

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