Wilderness Fiction

God is mobilizing an army, and Steve is all in. This army will consist of men who have intimate and personal experience with the weapons of the world and spiritual warfare. But something curious is holding him back. He spends a year praying, searching, and operating in faith that the Lord will, one day, reveal answers to his questions. That day has finally arrived.

In their desperate quest for power, the Wonders of the White Wilderness enter into deceptive alliance with more cities that are also very deceptive. One of the scoundrels lays his hands on an ancient scroll only to discover that evil cannot rule over good but the corruption in the city of Lars gives him no opportunity to give his counsels. The old wizard kindles the fire of battles: battles of the swords and battles for the corruption of the mind. Then, Vensiono must stand against the evils of the wizard before it is too late.

Eila Jacobsen is adrift, reeling from her father’s recent death and still suffering from the loss of her best friend. When invited to join a research trip to a remote part of Alaska, she takes the chance to refocus her life and perhaps unravel the mystery behind the dwindling caribou population. But as Eila buries herself in data, she stumbles across something remarkable. Concealed in the pages of her father’s journal is a discovery with life-changing possibilities. So why was it abandoned?

Lee Graham is faced with the decision of remaining in his beloved city, whose pollution is toxic to his lungs, or taking up the offer of free land in a Michigan wilderness. The magazine that offers Lee the free land has one stipulation: he cannot step foot off of the designated area in the wilderness for an entire year without forfeiting the land.

William’s life had been tragically altered as a youth, now his life is about to change once again. William thought that he and his little brother could now live in relative peace, using their gifts in secret while working on the ranch they stumbled upon as children. However, his existence will become jeopardized, and he will have to find a way to make it through more tragedy. Zane was neglected by his father, pampered by his mother; the one connection he craved was with William, but the youth’s younger brother prevented it.

One body. Five suspects. Total darkness. A tense, claustrophobic historical mystery set almost entirely underground at the onset of the Great Depression about the discovery of a 150-foot waterfall in the middle of a mountain, the unthinkable crime that happens in its caves, and a woman who’s...

"Milan is in a race against time and terror to get to her parents’ one trusted friend before she ends up dead, too… readers will be intrigued and thrilled to see how it all turns out." —Booklist New York Times bestselling author April Henry delivers a thrilling murder mystery featuring a...

A reluctant camper. A devoted single dad. A wildfire that changes everything. Reluctantly, Morgan Winters accepts an offer for an immersive camping trip meant to breathe life into her next novel—and save her struggling writing career. Though she’s lived in Colorado most of her life, she's never been a happy camper and dreads traveling to the Georgia Blue Ridge Mountains. One night alone in a tent is bad enough. Several nights? Unthinkable. Just the thought of all the dangers lurking in the wilderness makes her cringe. But unwilling to back down from a challenge, she summons all her courage.

Because she is Jewish, 14 year-old Piri has been held prisoner in Nazi concentration camps for two years. She is freed when Bergen-Belsen is liberated, but she is very ill and has deep psychological scars. In a voice full of innocence and courage, Piri tells how she got through the first years after the Holocaust.

In the Wilderness is a poignant short novel that follows the story of a man who loses everything and finds himself wandering through the emotional wilderness of life. Set in California, this fictional tale explores themes of disappointment, betrayal, grief—and, ultimately, the rediscovery of purpose through faith.

Rome’s most decorated Centurion is given a secret mission to fulfill the Emperor's legacy, but a renegade General and the enemy's chief spy stand in his way. A Butcher’s Wilderness glimpses into the dark, cut-throat corruption of the Roman Empire at the height of its power. Its violence and deep superstition are seen through the eyes of Vederius Ligustus, a much-decorated yet deeply dark and troubled soldier, fiercely loyal to the army’s code of brotherhood.

Set in 1838, Wilderness of the Heart follows Clara Lawson, a young woman in her early twenties who is determined to escape the life her parents have laid out for her. Refusing to marry a man she doesn’t love and feeling suffocated by the confines of her family farm in Hudson, New York, Clara joins a wagon train heading west in search of independence and a new life.

William Cole cannot forget the cruel burden he carries, not with the pock marks that serve as an outward reminder. Riddled with guilt, he assumed the solitary life of a long hunter, traveling into the wilds of Kentucky each year. But his quiet existence is changed in an instant when, sitting in a tavern, he overhears a man offering his daughter—and her virtue—to the winner of the next round of cards. William’s integrity and desire for redemption will not allow him to sit idly by while such an injustice occurs.

In How We Disappear, award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers listeners transporting and compelling stories of those taken, those missing, and those neither here nor gone—runaways, exiles, wanderers, ghosts, even the elusive Dame Agatha Christie. From the remote Siberian taiga to the harsh American frontier, from rural Long Island to postwar Belgium, Masih’s characters are diverse in identity and circumstance, defying the burden of erasure by disappearing into or emerging from physical and emotional landscapes.

For readers of My Absolute Darling and Fourth of July Creek, a "riveting and timely" Montana story about the unbreakable bond between a young man and the abandoned boy put in his care (Jess Walter), as old grievances of land and blood are visited upon them. Wendell Newman, a young ranch hand in...

The American Revolution is over, but the violence continues in the Ohio Valley. Jonathan Zane and Lewis Wetzel face constant action, trying turn the tide. But just when the beautiful Betty Sheppard has convinced Jonathan to give up his lonely war, she is captured, and taken into the unknown wilderness. Jonathan and Lewis set out on their last desperate journey to save her.

After the death of their parents during the Hard Winter, Margaret and her sister have struggled to survive. Between her mother's dying wish that Margaret protect her sister, and the nagging sensation that they are not alone, guilt and worry are her constant companions. And if someone is following them, is their watcher friend or foe?

The instant New York Times bestselling thriller from the “master of ticking bomb suspense” (People) who created Lincoln Rhyme and Kathryn Dance is “a tour de force…the suspense never flags” (Kirkus Reviews). When a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house is cut...

"I was born a slave, as was my father before me, but I shall die a free man." Thus begins the poignant story of Samuel Washburn, born a slave in 1850. A young master's cruelty leads to an unforeseen confrontation, which results in Sam and his cousin fleeing the plantation for their lives. They run north to freedom, only to return the South to fight for the greater cause in the Civil War.

A child disappears in the mountains And reunites two people looking for answers… Nurse Willa Ryan is shocked to discover Aaron Ames is a sheriff’s deputy in Eagle Mountain. Aaron had been the love of her life—until a tragedy tore them apart. But with a child missing in the Colorado...