The Night of the Cougar: A Novella
The Night of the Cougar takes you deep inside life in the small, idyllic town of Devil’s Canyon, which sits perilously on the edge of Silicon Valley, between Woodside and Portola Valley, where the clash between old and newly minted wealth, between traditional values and an emerging geek culture, is visible and ubiquitous. The town embraces all the values of privilege and exclusivity passed down through the generations. Outsiders are shunned, viewed with suspicion, as are those whose fortunes have come from the fountain of Silicon Valley startups gone public, millionaires made overnight, nouveaux riches whose lack of taste or understanding cannot help but go unrecognized among the locals, who claim the land as theirs and theirs alone.
Against this backdrop, Tom Maremaa’s spellbinding novella takes us on a journey of no return through the darkest corners of the unknown. One night, as the story opens, we hear the angry roar of a hungry cougar, a mountain lion with magical powers, protecting her young cubs from predatory danger high up on the ridge of the canyons overlooking the town. As the story unfolds, we find that the cougar becomes a savage protector of the natural order.
Justice must and will be served, the dark side of life in Silicon Valley exposed, confronted, with a moral imperative to recast the existing order. The elements are all there: a powerful, rich woman rancher, her lover and handyman with a shady past who betrays her trust, a patriarchal family desperate to maintain its position and authority, and then, an act of theft and abduction—a terrible deed that must, in the end, be justly and forever avenged.
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Against this backdrop, Tom Maremaa’s spellbinding novella takes us on a journey of no return through the darkest corners of the unknown. One night, as the story opens, we hear the angry roar of a hungry cougar, a mountain lion with magical powers, protecting her young cubs from predatory danger high up on the ridge of the canyons overlooking the town. As the story unfolds, we find that the cougar becomes a savage protector of the natural order.
Justice must and will be served, the dark side of life in Silicon Valley exposed, confronted, with a moral imperative to recast the existing order. The elements are all there: a powerful, rich woman rancher, her lover and handyman with a shady past who betrays her trust, a patriarchal family desperate to maintain its position and authority, and then, an act of theft and abduction—a terrible deed that must, in the end, be justly and forever avenged.
The Night of the Cougar: A Novella
The Night of the Cougar takes you deep inside life in the small, idyllic town of Devil’s Canyon, which sits perilously on the edge of Silicon Valley, between Woodside and Portola Valley, where the clash between old and newly minted wealth, between traditional values and an emerging geek culture, is visible and ubiquitous. The town embraces all the values of privilege and exclusivity passed down through the generations. Outsiders are shunned, viewed with suspicion, as are those whose fortunes have come from the fountain of Silicon Valley startups gone public, millionaires made overnight, nouveaux riches whose lack of taste or understanding cannot help but go unrecognized among the locals, who claim the land as theirs and theirs alone.
Against this backdrop, Tom Maremaa’s spellbinding novella takes us on a journey of no return through the darkest corners of the unknown. One night, as the story opens, we hear the angry roar of a hungry cougar, a mountain lion with magical powers, protecting her young cubs from predatory danger high up on the ridge of the canyons overlooking the town. As the story unfolds, we find that the cougar becomes a savage protector of the natural order.
Justice must and will be served, the dark side of life in Silicon Valley exposed, confronted, with a moral imperative to recast the existing order. The elements are all there: a powerful, rich woman rancher, her lover and handyman with a shady past who betrays her trust, a patriarchal family desperate to maintain its position and authority, and then, an act of theft and abduction—a terrible deed that must, in the end, be justly and forever avenged.
Against this backdrop, Tom Maremaa’s spellbinding novella takes us on a journey of no return through the darkest corners of the unknown. One night, as the story opens, we hear the angry roar of a hungry cougar, a mountain lion with magical powers, protecting her young cubs from predatory danger high up on the ridge of the canyons overlooking the town. As the story unfolds, we find that the cougar becomes a savage protector of the natural order.
Justice must and will be served, the dark side of life in Silicon Valley exposed, confronted, with a moral imperative to recast the existing order. The elements are all there: a powerful, rich woman rancher, her lover and handyman with a shady past who betrays her trust, a patriarchal family desperate to maintain its position and authority, and then, an act of theft and abduction—a terrible deed that must, in the end, be justly and forever avenged.
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| BN ID: | 2940015673777 |
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| Publisher: | Black Tea Press |
| Publication date: | 09/14/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 179 KB |
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