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The Last Great Ride of Maxwell Wilder

The Last Great Ride of Maxwell Wilder

Janet Lowe
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The game: Bull riding. The time: 8 seconds. The stakes: Live or die.

Max Wilder is a bull rider. He’s been gambling with his life ever since he was a raw and grieving 17-year-old kid plunged into the wild world of pro rodeo. It’s a world of strong men with outsized personalities and the flashing tempers to match, of friendly competition sometimes turning mean and ugly behind the chutes. It’s a rough and tumble world only briefly softened by the rhinestone-clad shinys, female groupies who flock to the cowboy bars after a show for a secondhand thrill. It’s been Max’s sanctuary. But in six brutal seconds on one mean mountain of a bull, his world crashes. Once at the very top of his sport, he’s now injured and aging, searching for answers and new hope.

Born of an Indian mother and a white father, Max straddled that racial divide never finding his place. His mother pushed him hard, determined to make him white enough to succeed in a bigoted world. His gentler father showed Max it was his Indian blood that made him a natural-born rider. But it took the rodeo to bring his disparate halves together into the Renegade, a name and a man to be reckoned with in and out of the arena.

Max formed a rodeo family around him. At its core was Steve Sands, the Sandman, and his best friend. Sands and other riding buddies traveled with Max through the years, sharing cars and motel rooms and cash as they kept each other afloat. They were both his competitors and his advisors, the center of his life.

Suddenly, it was all slipping away. It sent Max reeling back to the rusted old trailer of his youth, set down in Indian town right across from the reservation’s border. Max was haunted by poignant, painful memories of his dead mother. Then his unwanted, alcoholic father turned up, dying and needing to make amends. After hard weeks of caretaking and seeking his truths, Max receives a parting gift from his father and the seed of a burgeoning hope.

From the warm welcome of his newly met relatives on the reservation to the chilly politeness of Sands’ wealthy ranching parents, Max makes his stand for himself and his friend. Together they return to the rodeo. But for the first time in their long friendship they have different agendas. Still they pull together, and keep quiet about their shared loved for Sands’ ex-wife.

When unexpected tragedy strikes, Max doesn’t see how he can come back one more time. An old enemy goads Max to fully face his past and present and even his future. Max celebrates his victory in one final, glorious act.

It’s the last great ride of Maxwell Wilder Hold on for one helluva ride!
Language
English
Pages
422
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
December 24, 2011

The Last Great Ride of Maxwell Wilder

Janet Lowe
0/5 ( ratings)
The game: Bull riding. The time: 8 seconds. The stakes: Live or die.

Max Wilder is a bull rider. He’s been gambling with his life ever since he was a raw and grieving 17-year-old kid plunged into the wild world of pro rodeo. It’s a world of strong men with outsized personalities and the flashing tempers to match, of friendly competition sometimes turning mean and ugly behind the chutes. It’s a rough and tumble world only briefly softened by the rhinestone-clad shinys, female groupies who flock to the cowboy bars after a show for a secondhand thrill. It’s been Max’s sanctuary. But in six brutal seconds on one mean mountain of a bull, his world crashes. Once at the very top of his sport, he’s now injured and aging, searching for answers and new hope.

Born of an Indian mother and a white father, Max straddled that racial divide never finding his place. His mother pushed him hard, determined to make him white enough to succeed in a bigoted world. His gentler father showed Max it was his Indian blood that made him a natural-born rider. But it took the rodeo to bring his disparate halves together into the Renegade, a name and a man to be reckoned with in and out of the arena.

Max formed a rodeo family around him. At its core was Steve Sands, the Sandman, and his best friend. Sands and other riding buddies traveled with Max through the years, sharing cars and motel rooms and cash as they kept each other afloat. They were both his competitors and his advisors, the center of his life.

Suddenly, it was all slipping away. It sent Max reeling back to the rusted old trailer of his youth, set down in Indian town right across from the reservation’s border. Max was haunted by poignant, painful memories of his dead mother. Then his unwanted, alcoholic father turned up, dying and needing to make amends. After hard weeks of caretaking and seeking his truths, Max receives a parting gift from his father and the seed of a burgeoning hope.

From the warm welcome of his newly met relatives on the reservation to the chilly politeness of Sands’ wealthy ranching parents, Max makes his stand for himself and his friend. Together they return to the rodeo. But for the first time in their long friendship they have different agendas. Still they pull together, and keep quiet about their shared loved for Sands’ ex-wife.

When unexpected tragedy strikes, Max doesn’t see how he can come back one more time. An old enemy goads Max to fully face his past and present and even his future. Max celebrates his victory in one final, glorious act.

It’s the last great ride of Maxwell Wilder Hold on for one helluva ride!
Language
English
Pages
422
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
December 24, 2011

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