Trueborn American Shadows: A Historical Big & Little Harpe's Hell on Wilderness Road: The Historical Novel of America's First Serial Killers, (Paperback)

1790s Kentucky Frontier. Two blood-soaked brothers. A trail of unvarnished terror.

Before the term serial killer existed, Micajah "Big" Harpe and Wiley "Little" Harpe carved a brutal swath across the Wilderness Road. Driven by a bleak arithmetic of survival, revenge, and cold malice, the Harpe brothers left a trail of butchered travelers, burned settlements, and terror across the Appalachian frontier.

Living in continuous dread alongside them were three women-Sally, Susan, and Betsey-bound to the brothers in forced wilderness camps, surviving under constant threat of death. As land speculators, lawmen, and vengeful posses close in through the freezing fog of the backcountry, the line between survival and absolute savagery vanishes completely.

Told with visceral atmospheric texture and unsparing historical grit, Big & Little Harpe's Hell on Wilderness Road immerses readers in the dark, tactile reality of early America. For fans of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Donald Ray Pollock, and S.A. Cosby, this dark Southern Gothic novel reveals the true nightmare of the American frontier.

Step onto the trace. Discover the brutal, unvarnished story of America's first serial killers.