W. Michael Gear

An old enemy has returned to Cahokia, an ancient civilization near the site of modern-day St. Louis, putting Morning Star, a god resurrected in the body of man, and his sister, Lady Night Shadow Star, at odds over their involvement in the fight.

Journeying to Cahokia to become the sacrificial promised bride of the Morning Star, Whispering Dawn, a woman carrying dark secrets and powers, is carried away to the Underworld, where she must rescue captured souls at the side of an embittered Fire Cat.

Follows the members of a Viking settlement in America, 500 years prior to the arrival of Columbus, who left narrow-minded religious beliefs and political and civil unrest to face the unknown in a new world, long before the Pilgrims.

The ancient North American city of Cahokia is threatened by civil war when the believed reincarnation of divine hero Morning Star is targeted by assassins, prompting his aunt, Matron Blue Heron, to bring the culprits to justice.

Rallying his fellow child captives in Gannajero's camp, young Wrass desperately works to convey important information to the Peoples, while Koracoo and Gonda forge an alliance with a weary Mohawk war chief and a Healer to rescue the children.