After seven hundred thousand years underground, a tribe emerges to a
frozen Earth, in this novel from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning
author.
The time of falling death stars ushered in the Long Winter--eons of cold
that caused plants and animals to vanish from Earth and drove people to
take refuge in underground cocoons. Human ingenuity had never faced a
greater challenge. For seven hundred thousand years, generation after
generation was born and died below the Earth's surface. But now, one
small tribe is sensing change. Chieftain Koshmar is sure that the New
Springtime is near, so she leads her people above ground to explore the
new world that awaits. The unfamiliar Earth, still a frozen shell of its
former self, will test their mettle in every way, leading the people of
the tribe to the brink of their destiny--or to their doom. At Winter's
End is the first book of the New Springtime series, which continues
with The Queen of Springtime.