<div>This story of a horse trainer and a rich man&rsquo;s wife is &ldquo;a gorgeously written, exacting exploration of duty and retribution set in dusty rural South Dakota&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). When fourteen-year-old Carson Fielding bought his first horse from Magnus Yarborough, it became clear the teenager was a better judge of horses than the rich landowner was of humans. Years later, Carson&mdash;now a skilled and respected horse trainer&mdash;grudgingly agrees to train Magnus&rsquo;s horses and teach his wife to ride. But as Carson becomes disaffected with the power-hungry Magnus, he also grows more and more attracted to the rancher&rsquo;s wife, and their relationship sets off a violent chain of events that unsettles their quiet town in South Dakota. Thrown into the drama are Earl Walks Alone, a Lakota trying to study his way out of the reservation and into college, and Willi, a German exchange student confronting his family&rsquo;s troubled history. Described by Howard Frank Mosher as &ldquo;the best western-based fiction I&rsquo;ve read since Lonesome Dove and Plainsong,&rdquo; this &ldquo;compelling&rdquo; story of love and hatred by the author of Twisted Tree offers &ldquo;fine characterizations, crisp dialogue and fully realized sense of place&rdquo; (The Denver Post). &ldquo;Kent Meyers&rsquo;s new novel is the kind of book that demands and rewards fierce loyalty. . . . I instantly fell under its spell.&rdquo; &mdash;The Christian Science Monitor</div>

The Work of Wolves

<div>This &ldquo;beautifully written&rdquo; novel about a murder in small-town South Dakota explores &ldquo;a haunted territory of regret, longing and guilt&rdquo; (Jess Walter). Hayley Jo Zimmerman is gone. Taken. And the citizens of the windswept prairie town of Twisted Tree must come to terms with this tragedy&mdash;the loss, the repercussions, and the secrets they carry&mdash;as one girl&rsquo;s short life unfolds through the stories of those who knew her. Among them are a supermarket clerk hiding the terrors of her past; an ex-priest who remembers a lost love; an abused caretaker exacting a long-awaited revenge; Hayley Jo&rsquo;s best friend, who fed her addiction; and her father, channeling his grief in desperate and unexpected ways. As Hayley Jo&rsquo;s murder recasts and reconnects these left-behind lives, her absence roots itself in the community in astonishingly violent and tender ways. One of the best contemporary writers on the American West, Kent Meyers takes us into the complexity of community regardless of landscape, and offers a tribute to the powerful effect one person&rsquo;s life can have on everyone she knew. &ldquo;Meyers&rsquo;s small masterpiece deserves comparison to the work of Raymond Carver, Joy Williams, and Peter Matthiessen.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review &ldquo;Like Russell Banks in The Sweet Hereafter, Kent Meyers spins out his intimate life stories from the hub of a small town tragedy and takes us into places we never thought we&rsquo;d go.&rdquo; &mdash;Stewart O&rsquo;Nan, author of Songs for the Missing</div>

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Books By Kent Meyers (2 Books)

The Work of Wolves

Twisted Tree

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