Black Wolf Rising — Lyle Nicholson

There was never any doubt that Bernadette Callahan would cause trouble. Her upbringing was sporadic to say the least.

In her sixteen years, she'd lived a life on the road with her parents as they pursued a dream of stardom as barroom musicians that would end with their deaths. Her father's death was from alcohol, and her mother's death from a broken heart.

She'd constantly be dropped off on the reservation in the far north of Canada when her father needed to go on an extended ‘bender,' and her mother needed to chase him and try to bring him back to his senses.

In that time, Bernadette would access her native roots, her grandfather and her grandmother were her caregivers and mentors. But anger rose in Bernadette. She was quick to take offense. Her father was called a white drunk, and her mother a whore.

She lived between two worlds, that of her native mother and that of the mournful Irish balladeer that was her father. One day, that world would collide, and Bernadette would need to run.

This story is a prequel to the Detective Bernadette Callahan series. Polar Bear Dawn is the first in the series, which is at the end of this book. Also, Polar Bear Dawn is permanently free on most websites to download.

The author, Lyle Nicholson, thought that in this world of prequels, where everyone from Star Wars to Batman is doing a prequel, he thought, why not Bernadette Callahan? Don't readers deserve to know what made her want to fight, want to become a police officer in the fabled Royal Canadian Mounted Police?

And from that thought, Black Wolf Rising, the prequel was born. There is myth, there are dreams, there are desires, and even a kick ass Karate Sensei. Lot's of fun to sit back and enjoy.