The Wolf at the End of the World (The Heroka Stories #1)
Douglas Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
4.33
· 3 ratings · 353 pages · Published: 12 Oct 2013
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"I can’t remember the last time I read a book that spoke to me, so eloquently, and so deeply, on so many levels. ... I’ll be rereading it in the future because it’s that sort of book. Richly layered and deeply resonant. An old friend, from the first time you read it." —Charles de Lint, World Fantasy Award winner
"An extraordinary author whom every lover of quality speculative fiction should read." —Fantasy Book Critic
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The Heroka walk among us. Unseen, unknown. Shapeshifters. Human in appearance but with power over their animal totems.
Gwyn Blaidd is a Heroka of the wolf totem. Once he led his people in a deadly war against the Tainchel, the shadowy agency that hunts his kind. Now he lives alone in his wilderness home, wolves his only companions.
But when an Ojibwe girl is brutally killed in Gwyn's old hometown, suspicion falls on his former lover. To save her, Gwyn must return, to battle not only the Tainchel, but even darker forces: ancient spirits fighting to enter our world…
And rule it.
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Cree and Ojibwe legends mix with current day environmental conflict in this fast-paced urban fantasy from a three-time Aurora Award winning author.
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