Immerse yourself in the intelligence, wisdom, and majesty of the wolf as you journey through wolf-history heretofore unknown by humanity. Discover what every dog knows about the true beginnings of human civilization. You will find yourself wondering if it really did happen this way.
It was the age of the lone wolf, an ancient time of isolation and hostility. When Arn and Versa, two of the most powerful wolves to ever roam the earth, clash in a mighty battle lasting two days and two nights they collapse on the battlefield, virtually drained of life. Only by helping each other can they survive certain death. Forced to trust each other, they overcome the poisoned blood of the lone wolf and forge a super-partnership never before enjoyed by any other carnivore.
Fully healed, they become The First Wolf Pack, a hunting machine dominating all lands they choose.
Lone wolves, pressed to survive, form alliances in an attempt to destroy The First Wolf Pack. While their adversaries assemble, Arn and Versa must teach their extraordinary offspring the secrets of pack life.
For The First Wolf Pack to survive, the most gifted of their young offspring, Tria, must grow up quickly, battling countless foes and her own deep flaws. Soon she becomes the invincible wolf others fear; destroying all enemies in her path, but her spirit remains empty and broken. Suffering great internal struggles to overcome her unparalleled power, brutality, and suspicious nature, Tria must learn to forgive and trust those who misunderstood her.
She embarks on an epic sojourn across continents and time in an attempt to change the course of wolf, dog, and human history. But the question remains—can she fulfill the improbable destiny that awaits her?
The legend is shared by the narrator, a British dog named Bingley, who has been granted the right to speak “human” by the great wolf spirit. Discover how The First Wolf Pack created The Wolf Ways and, in the process, how wolves and humans came together to create the ancestors of modern dogs.
Targeted Age Group:: Adults
What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
The First Wolf Pack: A Dog’s Fable, my first book, was inspired by several disparate factors. Love of dogs and wolves, fascination with ancient foundational myths, the grandeur of God’s creation, and contemplating the purpose of fireflies in the grand scheme of creation. Somehow these things coalesced into a story about overcoming ignorance, narcissism, suspicion, and self-pity.
How Did You Come up With Your Characters?
Other than the historical characters who are obvious, my anthropomorphized wolves are amalgamations of certain personality traits of people I have known, blended with the personalities of dogs I have had the honor to adopt. I love all of the members of The First Wolf Pack. If I had to pick one, I’d pick two—Arn and Tria. They each had the most psychologically complex personalities, especially their recoveries from selfishness and ignorance.
Book Sample
Perhaps in no other being is the will to survive greater than in the wolf. Essential to the survival of the lone wolves and continuing through to the prospering of The First Wolf Pack was the tenacity that lay at the core of their nature. It was through the teaching of The Magnificent Ones that persistence was tempered and thus perfected. Blind, persistent suspicion after all was part of what doomed countless generations of my ancestors to paltry lives, but fortunately it was the will to survive that kept them from extinction.
Jett recalled Tria’s explanation how Arn and Versa discovered that persistence required a sister who they knew as discernment, and how they discovered that their decisions based on a life dedicated to each other provided them with much more than the individual gave up. They also knew when to apply their natural persistence to battle, to the hunt, and to leadership. Tria once said to Jett about
the alphas, “They were the first to discover that at times, a growl was superior to a bite.”
Jett found no doubt or flaw in this lesson. That is why he let Ellip live. As she ceased her futile struggle against Jett’s incredible power, Jett let her get to her feet, stepped back and turned his back on her and the now fly-covered swine.
Ellip dove to her prize of two different battles and hastily ate while Jett watched, then he trotted off slowly with the breeze at his back, his nose knowing all the while that soon he would have a companion. With a barely perceptible limp from her bleeding foreleg, Ellip soon bounded after Jett, enamored with curiosity and something she had not felt before, respect. He called to her, “What is you seek by
following me?” And Ellip replied in a way that greatly amused Jett: “I will let you know if you do something noteworthy.”
Let me interrupt the story to tell you here that what you call love is not as powerful in our pack as is respect. The love you place upon us like primates with hugs and kisses we tolerate, and some of us enjoy more than others, but it is not what drives us to loyalty.
That afternoon as Ellip came closer to Jett, he stopped, turned, and stared at her until she froze in her tracks, lowered her head and neck in a cowering posture not
daring to make eye contact and approached slowly. Then when within only a few feet of Jett, turned and came to him sideways, not face-to-face which is often a sign of aggression. Having only known the way of the lone wolf it is a mystery to us that she submitted to him in both battle and in approach. While Bord first submitted to the great Arn like a puppy, and then learned from the Magnificent
One’s pack the ways of regularly showing submission to the alpha, Ellip had no education of adult submissive behavior. Perhaps she was one of the lone wolves observing the pack from a distance. Our legend does not tell us why but we do
know that her act of submission was lurking within her nonetheless, for without it, Jett would not have allowed her to join him. And live she did.
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