Gather Her Round
The Tufa Novels: Book #5
- By: Alex Bledsoe
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Description
Love and tragedy are not strange bedfellows among the Tufa. Young Kera Rogers disappears while hiking in the woods by Needsville. When her half-eaten remains are discovered, the blame falls upon a herd of wild hogs, a serious threat in this rural community. In response, the county’s best trackers, including game warden Jack Cates and ex-military Tufa Bronwyn Chess, are assembled to hunt them down.Kara’s boyfriend Duncan Gowen mourns her death, until he finds evidence she cheated on him with his best friend, Adam Procure. Seeking revenge, Duncan entices Adam to participate in their own boar hunt. Later, Bronwyn and Jack stumble across a devastated Duncan, who claims a giant boar impaled Adam and dragged him off. As this second death rocks the town, people begin to wonder who is really responsible.Determined hunters pursue the ravenous horde through the Appalachians as other Tufa seek their own answers. Between literal beasts in the woods and figurative wolves in sheep’s clothing, what truths will arise come spring?
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The Tufa Novels Series

The Hum and the Shiver
By: Alex Bledsoe
Narrated by: Emily Janice Card & Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
In this valley songs live … and kill.
No one knows where the Tufa came from or how they ended up in the mountains of east Tennessee. When the first Europeans came to the Smoky Mountains, the Tufa were already there. Dark-haired and enigmatic, they live quietly in the hills and valleys of Cloud County, their origins lost to history. But there are... Read more »
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Wisp of a Thing
By: Alex Bledsoe
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Alex Bledsoe’s The Hum and the Shiver wasnamed one of the best fiction books of 2011 by Kirkus Reviews. Now Bledsoe returns to the isolatedridges and hollows of the Smoky Mountains to spin an equally enchanting tale ofmusic and magic older than the hills.
Touched by a very public tragedy, musicianRob Quillen comes to Cloud County, Tennessee, in... Read more »
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Long Black Curl
By: Alex Bledsoe
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
LongBlack Curl is the latest installment in Alex Bledsoe’s acclaimedurban fantasy series, where magic is hidden in plain sight and age-oldrivalries simmer just beneath the surface.
In all the time the Tufa have existed, only two haveever been exiled: Bo-Kate Wisby and her lover, Jefferson Powell. They were castout, stripped of their ability to... Read more »
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Chapel of Ease
By: Alex Bledsoe
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
When Matt Johansson, a young New York actor, auditions for Chapel of Ease, an off-Broadway musical, he is instantly charmed by Ray Parrish, the show’s writer and composer. As their friendship deepens, Matt learns that Ray’s people call themselves the Tufa and that the musical is based on the history of his isolated hometown. But there is one... Read more »
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Gather Her Round
By: Alex Bledsoe
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Love and tragedy are not strange bedfellows among the Tufa. Young Kera Rogers disappears while hiking in the woods by Needsville. When her half-eaten remains are discovered, the blame falls upon a herd of wild hogs, a serious threat in this rural community. In response, the county’s best trackers, including game warden Jack Cates and ex-military... Read more »
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The Fairies of Sadieville
By: Alex Bledsoe
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Charming and lyrical, The Fairies of Sadieville concludes Alex Bledsoe's widely-praised contemporary fantasy series about the fairy descendants of Appalachia"This is real." Three small words on a film canister found by graduate students Justin and Veronica, who discover a long-lost silent movie from more than a century ago. The startlingly... Read more »
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