Things were hard in the 1850's, Thomas Reeves knew this well. He was a man bound and devoted to his land, his family, and the endless work that ranching required of him. Life on the Reeves ranch was unforgiving cattle to tend, fences to mend, and never enough time or money to ease the struggle. But when a monstrous black wolf emerges from one evening, everything changes.Thomas should have died that day. His wife Eleanor and son Sam grieve as he takes his last breath in their candlelit home. But a while later, he gasps back to lifeconfused and gasping, heart silent and wound unhealed.Determined to keep working despite the wound in his chest. Thomas refuses to acknowledge the impossible truth.The land has a hold over him, but so does something else. As the days pass, Thomas realizes the wolf didn't just attack himit changed him. And now, something ancient is stalking his family, its glowing yellow eyes fixed on the dying man who refuses to stay dead.Is the wolf just a wolf or something more?In the end, Thomas must face the truth: some things are worse than death.
