In the ancient days before the Ancestors kept the stories, the People of the Frozen Earth lived in the vast wasteland that is now called Siberia. Seeking a better life, they moved south across the land bridge into a New World, traveling through what are today Alaska and Canada. Just under two thousand years ago, this semi-nomadic People settled in the basin between the foothills at the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains and the flat tableland of the Western Great Plains in the area now known as Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas. Strong and proud, they lived, loved, hated, laughed, cried, and died in the fullness of Mother Life’s time.

Book 1: The New Day Dawns

The young warrior Mach and the chief’s daughter Horda are preparing to experience the Mating Rituals. Their joyous plans are interrupted and almost destroyed by a combination of their own actions, tribal mores, evil enemies, and forces of nature. They must use all their skills; strengths; and beliefs in themselves, each other, and the values of the People to not only survive, but triumph. In the end, they learn that what they have become is more important than what they were.

Read the first chapter or order the book as a paperback or e-book at GASLight Publishing,  LLC.

Book 2: As Shadows Fall

Mach and Thuro and their mates Horda and Wilda are unexpectedly thrust into leadership roles when they are named leaders of the new band of The People of the Frozen Earth. Mach, Thuro, and Horda rise to the challenge, but Wilda becomes one of their biggest problems. The band leaders have to deal with illness and death among their people, family disputes, an unwanted pregnancy and a miscarriage, droughts, fires, thunderstorms, and other natural disasters. The leaders and the People overcome all the obstacles with wisdom, courage, imagination, strong mores, and the love and support of one another.

Read the first chapter or order the book as a paperback or e-book at GASLight Publishing,  LLC.

The New Day Dawns is now available as an audiobook, read by the author Grace Anne Schaefer.

The regular price of the audiobook will be $15, but you can order now at a special introductory price of $10.

For more information, visit Indigenous Cultures Institute.

Grace Anne in Regalia

Grace Anne Schaefer will be featured at the Texas Court Reporters cruise aboard the Carnival Ecstasy from Galveston to Cozumel. The four-day cruise will depart from Galveston on February 11, 2010.

The speaker, Jodi Thomas, will show how Grace Anne uses innovative ideas—wearing regalia and attending powwows—to market her books as an example of how to get books out in cold, cruel world.