WeSa and the Lumber King

Jane Yellowrock #0.1

by Faith Hunter, Khristine Hvam (narrator)

(In the compilation Have Stakes Will Travel)

Beast, with Jane Yellowrock in the background of her mind, observes the lumber camp of white men who are destroying her hunting grounds. She decides to take revenge on the leader of the lumberjacks.

Genres: Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Short Stories, Audiobook, Shapeshifters, Magic

1 pages, Audible Audio

First published December 10, 2013

About the author

Faith Hunter's Junkyard Cats novella series is available in Audible, eBook, and "ridiculously expensive" (her words) trade paperback books at this time.

Faith's Jane Yellowrock series is a dark urban fantasy. Jane is a full blooded Cherokee skinwalker and hunter of rogue-vampires in a world of weres, witches, vampires, and other supernats. 15 books and several compilations of shorts

The Soulwood series is a dark-urban fantasy / paranormal police procedural /para-thriller series featuring Nell Nicholson Ingram, an earth magic user and Special gent of PsyLED. 6 books

Her Rogue Mage novels—Bloodring, Seraphs, Host, and the RPG Rogue Mage—feature Thorn St. Croix, a stone mage in a post-apocalyptic alternate reality.

Faith is a full time writer who finally hired a housekeeper when the dust bunnies multiplied, She bakes homemade bread and loves to cook.

Faith researches in great detail, and tries most everything her characters do. Research led to her life’s passions – jewelry making, orchids, Japanese maples, bones, travel, white-water kayaking, and writing.

Faith loves orchids. Her favorite time of year is when several are blooming. Pictures can be seen at her FaceBook page. And yes, she collects bones and skulls. She has a fox, cat, dog, cow skull, goat, a boar skull, a deer skull, (that is, unfortunately, falling apart) and the jawbone of an ass. Her prize skull is a mountain lion (legally purchased from a US tannery) hit by a car in the wild.

Her latest love is Japanese maples, and she has managed to collect over thirty.

She and her husband RV, traveling to whitewater rivers to kayak all over the Southeast. Whitewater Kayaking is her very favorite sport, discovered when she was researching her (Gwen Hunter) mystery book, Rapid Descent. She took a lesson and—after a bout of panic attacks from fear of being upside down trapped in a boat—discovered she loved the sport.

Under other pen names, notably, Gwen Hunter, she writes action adventure, mysteries, and thrillers. As Gwen, she is a winner of the WH Smith Literary Award for Fresh Talent in 1995 in the UK, and won a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award in 2008. As Faith, her books have been on the New York Times and USA Today Bestseller lists, been nominated for various awards and won an Audie Award with Khristine Hvam, among other awards. Under all her pen names, she has more than 40 books, anthologies, and complications in print in 30 countries.

For more, including a list of her books, see www.faithhunter.net , www.gwenhunter.com . To keep up with her daily, join her fan pages at Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/official.fait... and see her website blog at
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Reviews

[Choko · Rating 4 out of 5]

*** 4 ***

Beast and Jane get to learn about each other. And not a surprise, Beast is the smartest of the two:-)

[Maria Dimitrova · Rating 4 out of 5]

All stories with Beast as the main narrator are great. This made no exception. Add the fact that we got to see her interacting with Jane prior to her return to human form and I was in heaven. Jane is very different here from what we're used to. She's still a child and doesn't really understand the world. It's funny to see Beast having a better grasp on the human world than Jane.

The story itself is very short. It takes only 10 - 15 min to read but it gives another layer to the relationship between Beast and Jane and a look at the Hunger Times. Fans o fthe series should definitely read it.

[Montzalee Wittmann · Rating 3 out of 5]

WeSa and the Lumber King
A Jane Yellowrock Story
By: Faith Hunter
Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
The story is of Indian vs white man and the different ways they believed in caring for the land. There is more in here also!
Narration good!

[Jessica ❁ ➳ Silverbow ➳ ❁ · Rating 3 out of 5]

4.0 stars

FIRST, I'm not sure there's a more perfect example of Beast vs. Jane than this one:

Night vision came as sunlight left. Earth turned into silvers and greens and grays. Liked this time of day/ night. We sa called it beautiful. I called it safe.

Moving on.

If you're a longtime reader of Jane, you know there are periodic references to the Hunger Times. This is a (very) short story from Beast's POV as she tries to get rid of the humans destroying her natural habitat.

Beast is . . . Beast. *snickers*

We also get a peek at baby Jane, who hasn't yet found her way back to human form after melding with Beast.

[Delta · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Thenia · Rating 3 out of 5]

A short story from the Beast's point of view, about a confrontation with a lumberjack who destroyed Beast's hunting ground.

I have only read the first book of the series, and that years ago, so I only have a vague recollection of Jane as a character. In this one, she has a background role, only curbing Beast's more violent tendencies a bit.

The series continues with a series of short stories, starting with The Early Years next.

[Louisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this short story! A bit sad that all this happened, but yeah, great scene!

[Anniken Haga · Rating 4 out of 5]

This really short novella is told from Beasts POV, before the hunger times, and while she was alpha. It tells of her hunting, and how the hunger times came to be.
I really do love Beast.

I've read it before, as part of the Cat O'nine Tales-collection, and there I gave it 5/5 stars. I usually reserve that full pot for something that stire emotion in me.

[Desi · Rating 4 out of 5]

audio read cat o nine tales

[Paulina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting insight into the time when Jane was controlled by Beast.

[Christine (KizzieReads) · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is my first foray into this world, and even though it's a prequel short story, I think you might have to read the first full length book to understand what's going on, as I'm totally clueless for this one. I get that it's part beast, part human, but I don't know much else.

[SheLove2Read · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really too short to rate but I enjoyed it.

[Michelle Watson Forbes · Rating 4 out of 5]

interesting...I'm reading in the order that a list is telling me so this was the first of the Jane Yellowrock stories. I see potential.

[Marianne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just discovered that all the Jane Yellowrock shorts are included in my audible membership. Guess I’m going on a binge 😀

[Ben Truong · Rating 4 out of 5]

WeSa and the Lumber King is an audio short story from the Jane Yellowrock series written by Faith Hunter and read by Khristine Hvam. It takes prior to Skinwalker, the first novel, and centers on Beast, the mountain lion soul that has attached to Jane Yellowrock. It was first written and collected in the Have Stake, Will Travel anthology.

WeSa and the Lumber King centers on the Beast with Jane Yellowrock in the back-burner of her mind, through her eyes, the Beast observes a lumber camp that are destroy her hunting grounds. In a moment of animalistic instinct, she decides to take revenge on the leader of the lumberjacks.

WeSa and the Lumber King is written rather well. It is always nice to read scenes from the perspective of the Beast, which does not happen all too much in the core series. It is rather interesting to read one of the earliest stories involving her, when the relationship between Jane Yellowrock and the Mountain Lion spirit is rather new.

All in all, WeSa and the Lumber King is a well written, but more importantly, well portrayed short story about one of the earliest stories about the Beast residing alongside Jane Yellowrock.

[Alex Shrugged · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a short story about two female werewolves, one of which was angry that her hunting grounds were being destroyed by a lumber company. Her plan is to ambush the lumber foreman/boss/king and kill him.

Any problems with this story? Other than it is too short, the story probably would have been helped if the character of the "Lumber King" had been expanded.

Also, I wonder sometimes why female werewolves are called werewolves. "Werewolf" actually means "man wolf." The female of the species really should be called a wifewolf to preserve the Old English meaning of "woman wolf". The term "wife" or "wif" in Old English means female such as in "midwife" where "wife" actually means "woman." Oh well, that is modern English for you. It doesn't always make systematic sense.

Any modesty issues? None that I recall.

I'm not sure I would listen to this audiobook again. It is very short and I didn't have time to get invested in the characters.

[Riana Elizabeth · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not my typical fare, but was recommended to me by the engine and I thought I'd give it a shot. Still not my style so I may read another of the series to see if it gets better or if the recommendation engine was just... wrong?

Rather than a story or even a short story, this is just a brief scene - I believe this may be from an overarching, long-running series. Narration was great, however, and really fit the storyline.

[Mangus · Rating 3 out of 5]

I first discovered Faith Hunter early this year with another series. I liked what I read and decided to try other works by her. As I was browsing the "free stuff" on Audible, trying to get the most from my subscription. I found these little "gems" So far I am enjoying Jane Yellowrock and I hope these little tales continue to be entertaining.

[Carolyn F. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this from the anthology Have Stakes, Will Travel

Story about Jane and Beast when Beast was in control. Short and intentionally not sweet.

[Allison ☾ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Adventure from the early years of Jane and Beast. Jane is a child and has not broken free from the back of Beast's mind yet. WeSa is what Beast calls Jane. This was a good example of Beast vs. Jane that clearly continues into Jane's adulthood.

[Malissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Coming From Cat
This was told from the POV of the beast. Very interesting portrayal of the thought and pathways of the mind. This is one of my favorite series and I look forward to getting completely caught up with every bit of it.

[Rijomu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short story, not much of anything here. Feel weird marking this as a separate book since it’s so short, shorter than the other stories, but since they’re separate on audible instead of in an anthology I’ll post them as such.

[Karye Cook · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've never heard of this series before and it was confusing at first. I think I get it now but I'll continue on and see.

[TinaMarie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Back in the early days, told from Kit's PoV. Nice snippet

[Natalie Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

We all knew Beast was badass! We knew this! Still, this story shows a side of Beast that we haven't experienced in the other books of the Jane Yellowrock series. That kitty had had ENOUGH!

[Merry Stewart · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyed Beast's POV. :)

[ReadKnitHoard · Rating 3 out of 5]

In Cat o' Nine Tales. Cats take vengeance.

[Jessica Reads It · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beast is good hunter !

[Vera M. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just a few pages in a short story of Jane Yellowrock. In the viewpoint of Beast with Jane a quick background.

[Jenny · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was odd to go backwards from the books. I listened on audible to how Beast communicated early on. Not sure what I thought.