The Work of Wolves

Winner of the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Book Award

When fourteen-year-old Carson Fielding buys his first horse?a run-down,

wild-eyed roan?from the wealthiest rancher in his South Dakota border town,

he learns a hard lesson about dealing with powerful men. Years later and

now completely broke, Carson grudgingly agrees to work for the rancher,

training his horses and teaching his wife, Rebecca, to ride. But Carson and

Rebecca fall in love, angering her vengeful husband and setting off a cruel

chain of events that shock even the most hardened residents of the town.

With help from his friends from the nearby Lakota Indian reservation,

Carson, now wiser to ways of the American west, challenges the rancher's

rule, fiercely determined to protect what he holds most dear.

"Fine characterizations, crisp dialogue and a fully realized sense of place make The Work of Wolves compelling." -Denver Post

"The kind of book that demands and rewards fierce loyalty.... I instantly fell under its spell." -Christian Science Monitor

Kent Meyers is the author of The River Warren, Light in the Crossing, and The Witness of Combines. He lives in Spearfish, South Dakota, where he teaches at Black Hills State University.

Hailed by Howard Frank Mosher as "the best western-based fiction since Lonesome Dove and Plainsong," The Work of Wolves tells the story of Carson Fielding, a gifted young horseman who has taken a job training horses for the rich landowner Magnus Yarborough. Carson and Magnus have never seen eye to eye. As Carson becomes disaffected with the power-hungry Magnus, he grows more and more attracted to the rancher's wife-whom Carson is teaching to ride-and their relationship sets off a violent chain of events that unsettles their quiet reservation border town in South Dakota.

With lyrical prose and extraordinarily authentic characters, Kent Meyers has created an unforgettable novel of horses, love, and life set in a remarkable western landscape.

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