Bøker av Joseph Crance

College student Jacob "Matthew" Ernst has a unique talent-he can see through the eyes of his hounds. For now, he needs a break from his studies. It's summer in Upstate New York and time for a long hike amongst the beautiful hills of Painted Post. With his faithful young coonhound, Monk, Matthew looks forward to an uncomplicated respite in the woods.Logan Willoughby wants to belong, but she's fallen in with the wrong crowd-a motorcycle gang with a long list of criminal exploits. However, the price of admission may be a price too steep for her to pay. But Logan knows too much. She's become an end that can ill afford to remain loose, and her fellow gang members will do whatever is necessary to protect their own interests.A chance meeting puts Logan and Matthew on a collision course.Both will learn the wisdom only the forests of Painted Post can impart. The only thing that stands between her and the Green Skulls is The Master of Hounds.

"So you want to be a coon hunter?" Nathan asked gruffly."Y-y-yes, sir, I do!" Jason stuttered.Nathan nodded. "Be at my house tomorrow night around sunset. Your parents know where I live. Wear some good boots and a warm coat-Painted Post won't care how cold you get."Thus begins twelve-year-old Jason Canton's tutelage under the guidance of Nathan Ernst, with his legendary coonhound Seth and somewhat eccentric Uncle Arthur. Jason and his close friends, Bobby and Tara, soon learn the ways of the woods and life, following the call of the hounds in the darkened forests.But something powerful and not entirely of this world has brought malice to the woods of the rural Upstate New York town of Painted Post.This cunning menace will test the skills and courage of Nathan, Jason, and his friends.They must rely on one another to face this threat.They will need the strength of the bond between hunter and dog.They will require an exceptional hound.

It was a simpler time as widower Jacob Ernst struggles to raise his two young sons, Nathan and Mead, on their modest farm. They've grown up listening to the nighttime songs of hounds in the pursuit of the wily ringtail. Chasing raccoon through darkened hills, Jacob teaches his sons the legends of their hometown and a deep respect for all woodland creatures. Hunting and the lessons taught keep the Ernst family together. And the brothers bond with their dogs-loyal to one another until the end. For this is Painted Post-a storied place where the lessons of life, love, and death play out beneath its mighty oaks. But worlds collide. Evil follows the Ernst family and their hounds into these mystical hills. The scourge of the illegal drug trade, coupled with the treachery of one of their own, leads to an inevitable showdown. Some will learn that not all of Painted Post's vivid tales are pure legend, and this rugged woodland will wield its own brutal justice. For in the darkest hollows, unbreakable bonds are forged.

Young Sharon "Lill" Ernst finds solace in the woodlands of her rural hometown of Painted Post. With her family, Lill has grown up following their coonhounds in the nighttime forests. Andrew Renthro, orphan but the heir apparent to a vast empire of drug dealers, has been ordered by to prove his worthiness. Andrew leaves his native Chicago-a teen who eagerly seeks revenge for a father he never knew-and his success means destroying the unsuspecting Ernst family.However, the forests of Painted Post don't belong solely to the realm of man. Stories of guiding spirits, ghostly hounds, and hideous beasts abound in this mystical place of forests, streams, and woodland pathways.For many trails converge and diverge in the oak-strewn hills of Painted Post. Some paths lead to redemption. . . while others may end in certain doom.But all pathways have the potential to become legend.

In 1962, young Arthur McCutcheon hails from a well-to-do family who want ivied collegiate walls for him. Instead, Arthur is drawn to the tree-covered hills of Painted Post. Just beginning to explore the forests, Arthur's life is turned upside down by villainous schemes, and his future quickly becomes murky. Thrust into a new world with Renee, his loyal hound, Arthur learns about the woods and life from the venerable Seneca chief, John "Gray Eyes" Cornplanter. It won't be easy as Gray Eyes, his daughter, Mist, and wife, Shell, try to teach the bumbling if eager teenager.But one thing is certain.There's something different about this youth from Painted Post with a foot in both worlds.The exciting prequel to The Last Coon Hunter.

In 1962, young Arthur McCutcheon hails from a well-to-do family who want ivied collegiate walls for him. Instead, Arthur is drawn to the tree-covered hills of Painted Post. Just beginning to explore the forests, Arthur's life is turned upside down by villainous schemes, and his future quickly becomes murky. Thrust into a new world with Renee, his loyal hound, Arthur learns about the woods and life from the venerable Seneca chief, John "Gray Eyes" Cornplanter. It won't be easy as Gray Eyes, his daughter, Mist, and wife, Shell, try to teach the bumbling if eager teenager.But one thing is certain.There's something different about this youth from Painted Post with a foot in both worlds.The exciting prequel to The Last Coon Hunter.