Description: The glaciers of the Sierra Nevada are melting, destroying the habitat of the mastodons, creating the rich land that will become California. The coastal people struggle to understand the changing world around them: their seer Sunchaser has lost his way to the Spirit World and mammoths continue to disappear. When a beautiful woman arrives, fleeing from her abusive husband, the people know what they must do--for if the Spirits are already taking the animals away, what will happen if they shelter a stranger? Now Sunchaser must make a choice--between the woman he loves and the preservation of his people's world. Performed by Nanette Savard; Elizabeth Jernigan; Bradley Smith; Gregory Gorton; Michael Glenn; Nick Depinto; Scott Mccormick; Ren Casey; Daniel Sonntag; Alyssa Wilmoth; Larissa Gallagher; David Coyne; Tracy Olivera; Kimberly Gilbert; Thomas Keegan; Michael John Casey; Terence Aselford; Joe Brack; Patrick Bussink; Ken Jackson; Gary Telles; Richard Rohan; Margie Tompros.
Brief description:
W. Michael Gear is the author or coauthor with his wife, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, of more than fifty published novels. The couple have received the Western Writers of America 2021 Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contributions to Western Literature, the highest honor bestowed by the nonprofit guild. He is a USA Today and internationally bestselling author whose work has been translated into twenty-nine languages with over seventeen million copies in print worldwide. Both an anthropologist and archaeologist, he brings extraordinary depth and complexity to his characters and settings. He can be found at gear-gear.com.