Debut author Julie Eshbaugh’s sweeping prehistoric fantasy-with allusions to Pride and Prejudice-will enthrall readers with high-stakes survival, blinding betrayal, and star-crossed love.

Hunting, gathering, and keeping his family safe-that’s the life span seventeen-year-old Kol knows. Then vibrant, enigmatic Mya happens from the south with her family, and Kol is certainly captivated. He desires her to like and trust him, but any hopes of impressing her are ruined when he makes a careless-and almost grave-mistake..Read More about Ivory and Bone Nevertheless, there’s something even more to Mya’s great disdain…a history wrought with reduction that comes to light when another clan arrives. With them is usually Lo, an enemy from Mya’s past who Mya swears has ulterior motives.

As Kol gets to know Lo, tensions between Mya and Lo escalate until violence erupts. Faced with shattering losses, Kol is forced to question everyone he’s trusted. One thing is for sure: this is a battle that Mya or Lo-Kol doesn’t know which-had been preparing all along.

With riveting action and illustrative prose that leaps through the page, newcomer Julie Eshbaugh could have readers mesmerized.