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.