The Forest Primeval

Jack Henderson

Will Jarrett has her life upended after living a carefree life as a Native American teen on an isolated Wisconsin reservation. Now in a foster home of a Chicago-based lawyer, Will struggles. Acceptance is difficult. Life at home is hard. Then, if things can’t worse, as the sole surviving member of her tribe, she is pressured about the reservation’s ownership. Just as Will begins to fit in at her high school and learn more about her athletic talents from her coach, she is abducted. Finding shelter in the towering primeval forest where Will grew up may be the only way to her survival. Can she be the fierce defender of her ancestral land that she was born to be?

Author Bio:

Jack Henderson grew up in the southwest corner of Chicago before moving to the nearby suburb of Burbank, Illinois. At age 14, he started running, and he participated in track and cross country throughout his high school and college years. After college, he supported his career as a folk singer and entertainer by tending bar, painting houses, making donuts, working in factories, and other assorted activities. At various times during those years as a singer, he lived in Austin, Texas, Boulder, Colorado, and Los Angeles, California. He returned to school in the 1980s, earning a master’s degree, then a Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of Florida.

He finally got his first “real” job teaching and coaching at a private girls’ high school in Nashville, Tennessee. He began writing during summer vacations from that job. He lives with his wife and pursues his writing career in the idyllic town of River Falls, Wisconsin.