Returning to the harsh and breathtaking landscape she sovividly recreated in her bestselling Mother Earth, Father Sky, author SueHarrison brings us the first book of her remarkable Storyteller Saga. It is thetale of Chakliux, abandoned as a baby to die on the Arctic ice, only to berescued and raised to manhood by K'os, a cold and cunning woman seekingvengeance on the men who defiled her. At the age of twenty, Chakliux occupiesan honored place as his tribe's storyteller, and is sent to a neighboring enemyvillage to secure the peace by marrying the shaman's daughter. But a shockingdouble murder sets the storyteller on an extraordinary journey across thefrozen wastes in search of the strange truth about the offenses for which hispeople have long suffered..and about the hateful, scheming woman who raisedhim, who may turn out to be his most dangerous enemy.
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