THE ATLAN CHRONICLES

After a winter away from her Early Bronze Age community, Ishka the Healer returns with an infant son and a secret no other living person knows: the boy was not given to her by the spirits of the forest as she defiantly claims, but fathered by a now-deceased cloud traveller, one of a mysterious people from another world whom her village fear, but have never seen. Her plans to groom this special child for the leadership of her people are put in jeopardy not only by her relentless enemy, Vindior, but by the unexpected appearance of a visitor to her village, a woman named Hiri-Eta, whom only Ishka recognizes as being a cloud traveller in disguise. Ishka worries that the woman will discover her son’s true identity and take him away to be with his father’s people, but Hiri-Eta has a far different agenda, one that will cause even the ever-impulsive Ishka to have second thoughts