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.
