The Valley of Horses: Earth’s Children, Book Two-Fast Shipping

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This unforgettable odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteriesof the exotic, primeval world of
The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now growninto a beautiful and courageous young woman.

Cruelly cast out by the new leaderof the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behindand travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but fewpeople, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself. The short summer givesher little time to look, and when she finds a sheltered valley with a herd of hardysteppe horses, she decides to stay and prepare for the long glacial winter with the Clan has taught Ayla many skills but not real hunting. She finallyknows she can survive when she traps a horse, which gives her meat and a warm peltfor the winter, but fate has bestowed a greater gift, an orphaned foal with whomshe develops a unique kinship.

One winter extends to more; she discovers a wayto make fire more quickly and a wounded cave lion cub joins her unusual family, buther beloved animals don’t fulfill her restless need for human hears the sound of a man screaming in saves tall, handsome Jondalar,who brings her a language to speak and an awakening of love and desire, but Aylais torn between her fear of leaving her valley and her hope of living with her ownkind.