A Story Collection from the fantasy series The Hounds of Annwn.THE CALL – A very young Rhian discovers her beast-sense and, with it, the call of a lost hound.It's not safe in the woods where cries for help can attract unwelcome attention, but two youngsters discover their courage in the teeth of necessity.UNDER THE BOUGH – Angharad hasn't lived with anyone for hundreds of years, but now she is ready to tie the knot with George Talbot Traherne, the human who has entered the fae otherworld to serve as huntsman for the Wild Hunt. As soon as she can make up her mind, anyway.George has been swept away by his new job and the people he has met, and by none more so than Angharad. But how can she value the short life of a human? And what will happen to her after he's gone?NIGHT HUNT – When George Talbot Traherne goes night hunting for fox in Virginia, he learns about unworthy men from the old-timers drinking moonshine around the fire and makes his own choices.Who could have anticipated that the same impulse that won him his old bluetick coonhound would lead him to his new wife and the hounds of Annwn? Every choice has a cost, he realizes, but never a regret.CARIAD – Luhedoc is off with his adopted nephew Benitoe to fetch horses for the Golden Cockerel Inn. He's been reunited with his beloved Maëlys at last, but how can he fit into her capable life as an innkeeper? What use is he to her now, after all these years?Luhedoc needs to relearn an important lesson about confidence.THE EMPTY HILLS – George Talbot Traherne arranges a small tour of the local human world for his fae family and friends, hoping to share some of the sense of wonder he discovered when he encountered the fae otherworld.He's worried about discovery by other humans, but things don't turn out quite the way he expects. Karen Myers is a fantasy and science fiction author, best known for her heroic fantasy novels.After a degree in Comparative Mythology from Yale University and a career as an industry pioneer building software companies, she has devoted herself to writing speculative fiction. Her stories feature heroes in real and imagined worlds filled with magic, space travel, and adventure.When she's not writing, she enjoys hunting, fishing, photography, and playing her fiddle.Karen lives with her husband, dogs, and cats in an old log cabin in the mountains of central Pennsylvania, surrounded by wildlife. Bears, coyotes, deer, and possums visit often, and when she fiddles on her porch, the wild turkeys talk back. George Talbot Traherne has found another life for himself, as the huntsman for the Wild Hunt in the fae otherworld of the Virginia Piedmont.But his job and his relatives get stranger and stranger. How's a man supposed to make a life for himself and raise a family, in the company of gods and fae more powerful than himself?
