Morning Star
English
31 pages
1: Issue #1
2.7K views • Mar 27, 2024
LOOKOUT
1956. Kootenai National Forest, Montana. When smokejumper Nathan Garrett perishes in a raging wildfire, his surviving family’s hopes and happiness turn to ashes.
Now, one year following Nathan’s death, wife, and mother of two, Jolene Garrett, takes her crumbling family to the Morning Star lookout seeking solace through closure–to scatter her husband’s remains. But something far beyond the reach of their wildest imaginings awaits the Garrett family in the Montana wilderness–something more powerful than their anguish and torment. Something that transcends space and time. No telephones. No electricity. No transportation. No escape.
31 pages
2: Issue #2
914 views • May 08, 2024
Young Charlie Garrett has vanished into the Kootenai Forest. Together with her teen daughter Marabeth, Jolene Garrett launches a frantic search through the surrounding Montana wilderness to find her missing boy. There’s only one thing more powerful than grief and that’s a mother’s will to protect her children, a will fueled by the loss of her husband and fortified by the gleaming blade of her ax
30 pages
3: Issue #3
837 views • Jun 12, 2024
Marabeth Garrett has left the trail and lost her way in search of her still missing brother, Charlie. What finds her in the Kootenai Forest drives her deeper into fear and further from her mother into the unforgiving Montana wilderness. Jolene’s fruitless search for her son Charlie continues but her path is lit by powerful memories of her deceased husband’s love.
31 pages
4: Issue #4
719 views • Jul 11, 2024
The flame still burns! Jolene Garrett has at last found her son, Charlie. And all the Charlies have found her too. Beneath the black canopy of Big Sky stars, without her father’s once steadying influence, a lost and desperate Marabeth must recall Nathan’s lessons and learn to fend for herself.
32 pages
5: Issue #5
690 views • Aug 21, 2024
All has gone up in flames–the Garret family’s burial of their father Nathan, Jolene’s plans for closure and a fresh start for her children Charlie and Marabeth, and now even the Morning Star lookout tower burns! Haunted and stalked through the Kootenai Forest by memories of her past and delirious visions of her missing family, Jolene’s torment has exploded beyond the bounds of reason and so too has her quest to find her missing children. But something far beyond her wildest imaginings reaches out to Jolene to pull her back from the edge of madness. Something that transcends space and time. No telephones. No electricity. No transportation. No escape.
135 pages
6: Morning Star Paperback
1.3K views • Oct 30, 2024
1956. Kootenai National Forest, Montana. When smokejumper Nathan Garrett perishes in a raging wildfire, his surviving family’s hopes and happiness turn to ashes. Now, one year following Nathan’s death, wife, and mother of two, Jolene Garrett, takes her crumbling family to the Morning Star lookout seeking solace through closure–to scatter her husband’s remains. But something far beyond the reach of their wildest imaginings awaits the Garrett family in the Montana wilderness–something more powerful than their anguish and torment. Something that transcends space and time. No telephones. No electricity. No transportation. No escape.
