Job's Children

About the Book

In the years following the American Civil War, the land west of the Mississippi experienced a rising tide of humanity ruthlessly bent on subjugation.  It was protected by a disenfranchised soldiery that waged strange and primitive warfare in a psychologically terrifying landscape.  This is the setting for the gothic western JOB’S CHILDREN.  It is the story of sisters, Hope and Faith Whitcomb, whose insular lives are irrevocably changed by the arrival of an Army corporal, Lute Reilly, who seeks refuge with them after his patrol is wiped out by Indians.  It is not sanctuary he finds, however, since the Whitcomb sisters have a terrible secret they have vowed to keep, one that imprisons them in their crumbling brick house, set out in the middle of the Kansas prairie “like a rock in a sailor’s dream.”

About the Author

Jared Emery was born in 1951 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He attended Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa. and Berklee College of Music in Boston. While at Allegheny, Mr. Emery was a student of the eminent military historian Dr. Jay Luvaas, who helped shape a boyhood fascination for American military history into a lifelong passion. Mr. Emery has traveled extensively to historical sites in the United States, believing first hand exposure to be essential in correctly interpreting the events that happened there. “There is an emotional resonance at these places,” he says. “It is impossible to stand on Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, for instance, and read the words on the bronze book and not be moved.” Mr. Emery makes his home in Boulder, Colorado.