The First Americans: Great Migration

A starving band in the last Ice Age must decide whether to trust the stories of old men-or abandon everything they know and follow the herds toward the edge of the world.Winter has been growing longer for years. The mammoth herds are thinner, the meat racks stand empty, and every hunt costs more than it brings home. Iktu is fifteen, old enough to walk with the men but still ordered to wait behind them. His father Urren carries the band's survival on his shoulders. His mother Satha counts every strip of fat and every breath in a child's chest. Old Ruun, lame and half-mocked, remembers when animals darkened the valleys and rivers could be trusted. Now even his stories are running out.When a hunt fails and a small grave is built under the stones, the camp can no longer pretend that "known ground" is safe. Staying means more dead children. Leaving means crossing a river that has already killed and walking into a south no one alive has seen. Between the pull of tradition and the pressure of hunger, the band must decide what can be carried, what must be left behind, and who they are if they become strangers to their own fire.Told with unflinching realism and spare, lyrical prose, The First Americans: The Great Migration - Book 1: The Waiters is a gritty prehistoric survival novel set in the late Ice Age. It follows one Ice Age family through a season of hard choices at the beginning of humanity's journey into a new world. Perfect for readers who love immersive Ice Age historical fiction, anthropologically rich Stone Age sagas, and character-driven survival stories in the tradition of Jean M. Auel and Michelle Paver.

Pages: 247, Paperback, Independently published