The Shepherd

Name: The Shepherd
Rating: 4.375 (64 reviews)

J.C. Staudt

Sep 2017 · The Aionach Saga Book 0 · J.C. Staudt

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64 reviews

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There's no job tougher than guiding trade caravans through the wasteland, and no man tougher to do it than Toler Glaive. Life out here isn't for the fainthearted, and lately the pay hasn't kept up with the danger. Toler takes up smuggling to make ends meet - despite the trading company's strict rules against the practice. When nomads ambush the caravan, he finds his carefully laid plans unraveling. Now he must either take the fall, or find someone to take it for him...

The Shepherd is a prelude novella to J.C. Staudt's debut post-apocalyptic fantasy epic The Infernal Lands, and is a part of the Aionach Saga.

For fans of Mad Max, Fallout, The Dark Tower (Gunslinger), and S.M. Stirling (Dies the Fire, The Change, Emberverse).
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4.4

64 reviews

John Williams

August 28, 2019

Great book! As usual though it was too short. The characters were well fleashed for a story this size...and if i had to say anything ot would be that it could include more detail in terms of the enviroment and country they travelled through...and the fight scenes could have been better. I liked the atmosphere. Thankyou for helping me waste time well...heh.

Larry Verse

October 7, 2018

I was captivated. This surprised me because there was no magic, dragons, space ships or really other worldly things. It's an excellent read that calls out for more.

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Jim H

February 27, 2021

Written like a western tale of wagon trains crawling across the plains, hostile natives, wild animals, and bandits. Rough and ready men, an unscrupulous greedy merchant and roughkindness. A nicely told tale, set in another time and place.

About the author

J.C. Staudt was born in Oceanside, New York, and moved to Virginia at the age of four, where he has lived ever since. He is a graduate of George Mason University, with a B.A. in Integrative Multimedia Studies, and he works for an Engineering and Consulting firm as a New Media Designer. He lives with his beautiful wife in a house lacking pets and children in Manassas, Virginia.

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