Publisher's Synopsis
A massive logjam on the Chassezac River in present-day southern France burst in 3990BC. In this third book, the original quarreling sons have died, but the village is thriving. It's peaceful, and Fawn is quite comfortable with her mundane existence in her tiny village... until it's gone! Now she's forced to battle slavers, a crippling injury and a blood oath for revenge. Not to mention the monster that's following them! Fawn, along with her friends, Ouzel, Keenan and Oakwood, are teenagers suddenly alone at a time when only family clans matter for security and knowledge.
They know they cannot survive without other people, but where and how do they find them? Fawn and her friends must endure a perilous journey to find another farming village in the harsh and brutal Stone Age world in which they live. And once they find it, can they survive living there? Foreigns run the new village they found, but the locals are just as plentiful-and resentful.
The Chasseen Legends is a trilogy that follows one of the first families who transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers in southern France. You are instantly immersed in the lives of five generations of a family evolving from mountainous hunters to plains farmers. The backdrop of the story has taken years of research by interpreting the work of archaeologists digging in the area. However, the drama and suspense in the family as they move through this time period near the end of the stone age is the driving force of the saga.
During the Neolithic Age, the earth was lush and beautiful, full of birds and animals, but not of people. Fawn and her friends are not Jean Auel's cave dwellers, and the Ice Age ended centuries ago.
