The Brotherhood of the Wheel: A Novel

About this book

R.S. Belcher the acclaimed author of The Six-Gun Tarot and The Shotgun Arcana launches a gritty new urban fantasy series about the mysterious society of truckers known only as The Brotherhood of The Wheel. In 1119 A.D. a group of nine crusaders became known as the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon--a militant monastic order charged with protecting pilgrims and caravans traveling on the roads to and from the Holy Land. In time the Knights Templar would grow in power and ultimately be laid low. But a small offshoot of the Templars endure and have returned to the orders original mission: to defend the roads of the world and guard those who travel on them. Theirs is a secret line of knights: truckers bikers taxi hacks state troopers bus drivers RV gypsies--any of the folks who live and work on the asphalt arteries of America. They call themselves the Brotherhood of the Wheel. Jimmy Aussapile is one such knight. Hes driving a big rig down South when a promise to a ghostly hitchhiker sets him on a quest to find out the terrible truth behind a string of children gone missing all across the country. The road leads him to Lovina Hewitt a skeptical Louisiana State Police investigator working the same case and eventually to a forgotten town thats not on any map--and to the secret behind the eerie Black-Eyed Kids said to prowl the highways.