Jean M. Auel's enthralling Earth's Children series has become a literary
phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. In a brilliant novel as
vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M.
Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating
adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla.
With her companion, Jondalar, Ayla sets out on her most dangerous and
daring journey--away from the welcoming hearths of the Mammoth Hunters
and into the unknown. Their odyssey spans a beautiful but sparsely
populated and treacherous continent, the windswept grasslands of Ice Age
Europe, casting the pair among strangers. Some will be intrigued by Ayla
and Jondalar, with their many innovative skills, including the taming of
wild horses and a wolf; others will avoid them, threatened by what they
cannot understand; and some will threaten them.
But Ayla, with no memory of her own people, and Jondalar, with a hunger
to return to his, are impelled by their own deep drives to continue
their trek across the spectacular heart of an unmapped world to find
that place they can both call home.
Fourth in the acclaimed Earth's Children(R) series