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Cry of the Wind

Book 2 of the Storyteller series

Winter looms in this place of icy splendor near the top of the world-chilling a heart already frozen by hatred and cold dreams of revenge?

Experience and adversity have made the storyteller Chakliux a wise and powerful hunter and a man of great respect. But a tender heart is his weakness. In his village lives the beautiful Aqamdax for whom he yearns, though she is mated to a cruel and dangerous tribesman she does not love. It is Chakliux she runs to under a clear, moonlit sky while the village sleeps. But there can be no future for them together until a curse upon their people has been transcended. And then there is K'os, the healing woman—maddened and embittered by the outrage she was forced to endure years earlier—outcast and enslaved by the leader of the enemy tribe against whom she has sworn vengeance. To enact her savage and terrible justice, she will use—and destroy—anyone, if necessary, including the boy-turned-man she rescued in infancy and raised as her son: Chakliux, the storyteller.

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Return now to a frozen land in a remarkable time eighty centuries past, when the spirit was tested—and strengthened—by the cruelties of nature and the great mysteries of life.

Genre
historical fictionhistorical romancefantasy
Subject
anthropologyhistory
Audience
adult
Length
long · 512 pages

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