The first in The Wolf Chronicles trilogy, brilliantly weaving together
original research, lovable characters and a dynamic, thoroughly engaging
plot, Promise of the Wolves is a historical adventure story in the
tradition of Clan of the Cave Bear and Watership Down.
Set 14,000 years ago in what is now Southern Europe, Promise of the
Wolves is told from the point of view of Kaala, a young wolf born of a
forbidden, mixed-blood litter. An outcast after her mother is exiled,
Kaala struggles to earn her place in her pack. But her world is turned
upside down when she rescues a human girl from drowning. Kaala and her
young packmates begin hunting and playing with humans--risking expulsion
from their pack and banishment from their home in the Wide Valley.
When war between humans and wolves threatens, Kaala learns that she is
the last in a long line of wolves charged with keeping watch over humans
in order to prevent them from losing touch with nature and thus
destroying the world. But to do so she must solve the great paradox of
wolfkind: though wolves must always be with humans, humans cannot abide
the presence of wolves, and every time the two come together, war
ensues. Kaala must choose between safety for herself, her friends, and
their human companions and the survival of her pack--and perhaps all of
wolf and humankind.
