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. 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. 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. 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. 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. But there can be no future for them together until a curse upon their people has been transcended. It is Chakliux she runs to under a clear, moonlit sky while the village sleeps. 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.
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