HONOR AMONG MEN AND THE HUNTING OF HOUNDS.A Short Story from The Hounds of Annwn.When George Talbot Traherne goes night hunting for fox in Virginia, he learns about unworthy men from the old-timers drinking moonshine around the fire and makes his own choices.Who could have anticipated that the same impulse that won him his old bluetick coonhound would lead him to his new wife and the hounds of Annwn? Every choice has a cost, he realizes, but never a regret.This short story takes place between the events in To Carry the Horn and The Ways of Winter and is included in Tales of Annwn. Karen Myers is a fantasy and science fiction author, best known for her heroic fantasy novels.After a degree in Comparative Mythology from Yale University and a career as an industry pioneer building software companies, she has devoted herself to writing speculative fiction. Her stories feature heroes in real and imagined worlds filled with magic, space travel, and adventure.When she's not writing, she enjoys hunting, fishing, photography, and playing her fiddle.Karen lives with her husband, dogs, and cats in an old log cabin in the mountains of central Pennsylvania, surrounded by wildlife. Bears, coyotes, deer, and possums visit often, and when she fiddles on her porch, the wild turkeys talk back. George Talbot Traherne has found another life for himself, as the huntsman for the Wild Hunt in the fae otherworld of the Virginia Piedmont.But his job and his relatives get stranger and stranger. How's a man supposed to make a life for himself and raise a family, in the company of gods and fae more powerful than himself?
