Spirit Chamber

Book Two of the Benchland series

Five thousand years ago--late in the Age of Copper--two desperate couples found winter refuge in a cave. Exploring miles of subterranean passages, they discovered an exit onto the Benchland, a three-mile-long shelf of fertile ground, an isolated and beautiful place of wildflower, forest, and stream, set high on the steep wall of a river canyon and completely inaccessible to roving raiders, the scourge of that time in Europe. With ample game, year-round water, and firewood, the Benchland became home to the four founders...