Leaving the Valley of the Horses that has become her home, Ayla embarks on a momentous journey, that will lead to the clan of the mammoth hunters a people at first hostile and disturbingly different With her is, Jondalar, the handsome man she has nursed back to health and come to love but as she begins to settle into this new life, she finds herself irresistably drawn to the master-carver of Mamuti