The Longhunter: The Long Shadow
(2026)(The second book in the Longhunter Western Frontier series)
A novel by Robert Hanlon
Jake built his hidden cabin to escape the men hunting him, but the first tracks above the gorge prove that solitude has only given his enemies time to gather. With winter closing the mountain passes, the young longhunter must abandon everything he has built—or make his stand before the snow buries every road to safety.
McCrea has betrayed Jake’s hiding place, stolen his winter stores, and promised Red Hollow that the pale hunter in the ash cloak will be easy prey. Wounded during a desperate flight downriver and pursued by warriors with tracking dogs, Jake reaches Anna Ray’s trading post with a ruined shoulder, little food, and barely enough powder to survive the journey ahead.
Help comes from uncertain quarters. A Cherokee hunter named Tsalagi knows the men following Jake and offers guidance through the high passes, while the seasoned frontiersman Caleb understands what Red Hollow intends to do when he reaches the gorge. Yet every alliance carries risk, and Jake must decide whom to trust while McCrea’s treachery draws an expanding war party toward the only home he has left.
Jake returns to the gorge knowing that flight will merely postpone the reckoning. With Caleb beside him, a reinforced cabin at his back, and dwindling ammunition in his horn, he faces a patient siege led by a war chief determined to take his life and erase every trace of his claim. When Red Hollow finally enters the gorge, the struggle will be settled at close quarters, where rifle skill offers no protection and only one fighter will walk away from the mud.
Return to the untamed frontier in Longhunter: The Long Shadow, the gripping second book in the Longhunter series, where survival demands more than wilderness skill and the enemies following Jake may cast a shadow longer than the winter ahead.
Genre: Western
McCrea has betrayed Jake’s hiding place, stolen his winter stores, and promised Red Hollow that the pale hunter in the ash cloak will be easy prey. Wounded during a desperate flight downriver and pursued by warriors with tracking dogs, Jake reaches Anna Ray’s trading post with a ruined shoulder, little food, and barely enough powder to survive the journey ahead.
Help comes from uncertain quarters. A Cherokee hunter named Tsalagi knows the men following Jake and offers guidance through the high passes, while the seasoned frontiersman Caleb understands what Red Hollow intends to do when he reaches the gorge. Yet every alliance carries risk, and Jake must decide whom to trust while McCrea’s treachery draws an expanding war party toward the only home he has left.
Jake returns to the gorge knowing that flight will merely postpone the reckoning. With Caleb beside him, a reinforced cabin at his back, and dwindling ammunition in his horn, he faces a patient siege led by a war chief determined to take his life and erase every trace of his claim. When Red Hollow finally enters the gorge, the struggle will be settled at close quarters, where rifle skill offers no protection and only one fighter will walk away from the mud.
Return to the untamed frontier in Longhunter: The Long Shadow, the gripping second book in the Longhunter series, where survival demands more than wilderness skill and the enemies following Jake may cast a shadow longer than the winter ahead.
Genre: Western
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