Yonder

Determined seventeen-year-old Jem Hardy, entrusted with a mysterious mission, joins a wagon train bound for California in the spring of 1857.

Earning his keep as a wagon hand and scout, Jem finds strength in the harsh landscape, friends among fellow travelers, and an unexpected connection with Charlotte, a charming young woman with secrets of her own.

But as their bonds deepen and hopes begin to bloom under the vast Western sky, a subtle unease settles over the wagon train, a shadow hinting at dangers far more insidious than the untamed land itself. As they roll farther from civilization, danger circles closer than wolves at night.

With grit beyond his years, Jem meets every challenge head-on. But on this perilous journey across the heart of the American West, he will confront a truth more savage than the frontier itself: the deadliest threats don't howl in the night-they lurk within the human heart...

YONDER is the first book in a thundering saga of sacrifice and survival, where love blooms against impossible odds, and the true measure of a man is forged in the crucible of hardship.

"John Deacon writes the kind of Westerns I like to read-gritty and fun with lots of heart." - Don Bentley, New York Times Bestselling author of the Matt Drake thrillers; the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan, Jr. novels; and the Vince Flynn Mitch Rapp series