David Robbins
©2016


Way back in 1990 I started a series that has been going strong for 27 years. It’s called WILDERNESS, and it’s the generational saga of a Mountain Man and his family in the Rocky Mountains of the mid-to-late 1800’s. The series is also part of the ENDWORLD Universe. (More on that in a bit.)
[The very first WILDERNESS. Nearly thirty years, and the series is still going strong.]

Young Nathaniel King heads west at the urging of his uncle, thinking he will strike it rich in gold or silver, and instead discovers something vastly more precious: freedom. He also finds love in the person of a Shoshone maiden. Together, they start a family, and together, they brave the many perils to come.

WILDERNESS is all about ‘family’. (So is ENDWORLD. Again, more on that soon.) About how devotion and love can endure anything and everything life throws at you.

The Kings have a boy and a girl. The son is a hellion who lives to count coup. The daughter is as independent as they come. Between them, they are forever getting into situations that put them at risk.

Over the course of about 80 books---counting the GIANT editions----the young Kings grow and mature. Each novel stands alone, but taken as a whole, they weave a seamless tapestry of high adventure.
[A book from about the midpoint of the series, and a fan-favorite cover.]

In WILDERNESS #69: THE AVENGER, young Zach King has a wife of his own, and she is about to give birth. Ideally, it should be a time of wonder and bliss. But unknown to Zach, he is being stalked by the brother of a bandit he was forced to slay. This avenger is out for blood---and what better way to make Zach pay, than to strike at those Zach cares for most?

Now, about that ENDWORLD business. It’s a science fiction series set in the future, after the Apocalypse. There is a genealogical link between it and WILDERNESS in that Nate King is an ancestor of Michael King, otherwise known as Blade, in ENDWORLD. When you read WILDERNESS, you are reading about a family linked to the characters of the far future in ENDWORLD. When you read ENDWORLD, you are reading about a Family linked to the characters of the far past in WILDERNESS. 
[The latest ENDWORLD. Part of the timeline series that includes WILDERNESS.]


There are three other series in the ENDWORLD Universe but we won’t go into that.

For now, the important thing is that WILDERNESS #69: THE AVENGER is out! Treat yourself. And see why so many people like the King family saga so much, they keep coming back for more.