BooksChatter: ❏☀ Hungry As A Wolf: Tales of the Half-Breed [2]

Thank you for joining us for the Cover Reveal for Hungry As A Wolf, a western horror by Elizabeth Einspanier which will be available from 31 October 2015.

Hungry As A Wolf is the second book in the Tales of the Half-Breed series.

Check out the book's synopsis and the excerpt below, as well as details of the first book in the series.

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Synopsis | Teaser | The Series | About the Author | Giveaway & Tour Stops

Synopsis

Wolf Cowrie is back in his second adventure!

In the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory in 1865, tensions run high between white settlers looking for gold and the Sioux people who consider this region their holy ground.

When Wolf is hired to find out what happened to the workers of a mining outpost in the area, the general theory in Goldwater is that they were slaughtered by the Sioux. Wolf discovers something far more sinister lurking in the Black Hills, an ancient evil whose unending hunger drives sane men to ghoulish extremes.

Teaser: Excerpt

Smythe greeted the two men with a horrified look and a startled oath.

“Yar Doc is dead,” Wolf said. “Again. This time I think he might stay down. Ken we come in?”

Smythe backed up, still staring. “You’re… you’re covered in…” he managed to squeak.

“It ain’t mine,” Wolf said, wiping his feet on the welcome mat before walking into the front hall. “Now go get yar master so’s we can give him the good news. And… I need a basin of water to wash up.”

The servant returned a minute later with a pitcher of water and a basin, and Wolf endeavored to scrub his hands and face until his flesh stopped crawling. He was halfway through when Hartford uttered a syllable that made his blood run cold.

“Ma’am.”

Wolf looked up, gory water dripping down his hands and chin, to find Susannah in the doorway. She was staring at him in a mixture of horror and concern, and he was acutely aware of the results of an exploded skull still clinging to him. He swallowed hard, wishing fervently that the ground would just swallow him up right there.

“Miss Twohill,” he greeted her. “I… I took care of the problem ya had running around. He won’t get any more of the townsfolk. Don’t you worry none.”

“What… what happened?” she asked. “Are you…? Did he…?”

“No,” he said. “I ain’t bit. This is just… well... we, ah… blew his... brains out.” He glanced at Hartford for assistance, but the other man was steadfastly looking out the window. The message was clear: he was staying out of this conversation.

Hungry As A Wolf
Available 31 October 2015!

The Series: Tales of the Half-Breed

Click on the book cover to Look Inside the book and read an excerpt.

Sheep's Clothing [1]

It is the year 1874.

Doc Meadows, frontier doctor working in the small town of Salvation, has always considered himself a sensible man, and has not believed in monsters for a long time. When injured half-Indian Wolf Cowrie staggers into his practice one night, however, he brings terrifying news--a vampire he hunts plans to settle in Salvation and turn it into his own private larder. Now Doc has to overcome his skepticism and fear in order to face down this new threat to his town, before Salvation becomes just another ghost town in the territories.

Sheep's Clothing hearkens back to early depictions of vampires as bloodthirsty, charismatic monsters, borrowing more strongly from Dracula than more common modern interpretations. [Published 9 March 2014, 128 pages]

About the Author

Elizabeth Einspanier is the self-published author of the Weird Western novella Sheep’s Clothing and the upcoming sci-fi romance novel Heart of Steel.

Her short stories have been published in Down in the Dirt and Dark Fire Fiction.

She is a member of the St. Louis Writer’s Guild and an associate member of the Horror Writers of America.

She lives in St. Louis, but frequently spends extended periods in worlds of her own creation.

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