Warned by their visions and dreams, they are aware that there is danger coming. Henry is Ojibwe, Dolores also has Ojibwe blood, Rainy. She suspects her husband may be having an affair. She has come to Henry to seek spiritual guidance to rescue her own marriage which seems troubled lately.
Dolores claims that she has no idea why anyone would be searching for her. The man who asked for his help is not the husband of Dolores. When he finds Dolores, she is with his wife Rainy, and Henry. He is a man with special, spiritual gifts whose visions enable him to help and counsel others. He decides to go to the Iron Lake Reservation to speak to Henry. Cork knows there is something odd about this man’s request because Henry is very old. He claims that he just wants to try and fix his failing marriage and bring her back home. The man says that she has run away to be with Henry Meloux. Read moreįox Creek, William Kent Krueger, author David Chandler, narratorWhen a man comes to Cork O’Connor to engage his help in finding his missing wife, Delores Morrisseau, Cork’s curiosity is piqued. Fox Creek is an intensely gripping and richly imagined addition to a masterful series. His fiercest enemy in this deadly game of cat and mouse may be his own deep self-doubt about his ability to save those he loves. Knows only too well that with each passing hour time is running out. In desperation, Cork begins tracking the killers, but his own skills in the wild are severely tested by a late season snowstorm.
Meanwhile, in Aurora, Cork works feverishly to identify the hunters and the reason for their relentless pursuit, but he has little to go on. On the last journey he may ever take into this beloved land, Meloux must do his best to outwit the deadly mercenaries who follow. Meloux guides this stranger and his great niece, Cork O’Connor’s wife, to safety deep into the Boundary Waters, his home for more than a century. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his long life.īut peace is destined to elude him as hunters enter the woods seeking a woman named Dolores Morriseau, a stranger who had come to Henry for shelter and the gift of his wisdom. The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. Cork O'Connor, the retired sheriff of Aurora, Minnesota, is in a race against time to save the people he loves from ruthless mercenaries in this riveting new novel from New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger.
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