"What if early man had come into the alpine valleys of the Rocky Mountains 8,000 years ago and settled? Mensa, the Headman, leads a small group of followers out of the High Plains where their ancestors had lived since time forgotten. Join Sachi, the Headman's daughter, as her destiny is forged by the fierceness and beauty of the environment as well as the tempestuous upheaval of her Clan struggling to survive."--Cover, p. [4].