People of the sea

Summary: The great glaciers that cover the Sierra Nevada mountins are melting, destroying the habitats of the great elephants, lions and short-faced bears-and giving birth to the rich land that will become California. The few thousand people who have settled along the coast struggle to understand as the world around them changes. Where have the mastodons gone? And why are the mammoths disappearing? The seer Sunchaser would ordinarily visit the Spirit World and return the with answers - but he has lost his way. Meanwhile his rival, Catchstraw, has discovered witchcraft as a way to Power - at the expense of his soul. And what will it mean to the people when a beautiful fugitive arrives? Kestrel, born in Arizona's marsh country, is running from her mad husband, desperately hoping for sanctuary on the coast. But if the Spirits are taking the mammoths now, what will they do should the people shelter an evil woman? Surely they should deliver her to her husband, who will kill her - and who has his own link the the Spirit World though the pitiful, mummified corpse of his little son...Must Suncatcher choose between the woman he has come to love and the continuation of his world? He know full well that either choice will damn him...

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