Michael's Song Canto II continues the saga of Michael Touissant Bradford, Union soldier and former slave. Previously, in Canto I Michael has escaped from his master and fled north, only to return as a Union soldier in the Civil War. He has lost his only friend at the battle of Pittsburg Landing. In Canto II Michael runs the gauntlet in the riverboats with Grant to get south of Vicksburg. Because he now has no one left to care about he fearlessly charges into each battle and becomes the quintessential soldier. He marches and fights his way through the south, confronting old ghosts and memories...

Cleverly affecting a daring escape from a Mississippi plantation, Michael, a young slave of mixed racial heritage, flees northward. With the help of a poor farmer and a steamship pilot he makes it to Wisconsin where he gets hired at a small cafe run by an immigrant German woman and her large teenage son Hans. Hans and Michael become fast friends and Michael thinks he is finally safe. But the Civil War begins. Like many others at the beginning of the war Hans eagerly wants to join the army. Michael is terrified when Hans insists that Michael enlist with him. He knows if he goes South that he...

Amanda White flees her pampered life in the East in order to save her small daughter. As the new teacher of raggedy, poor Indian children in the high Western plains, she struggles with the harsh climate and a devious Indian agent to carve out a new life for all of them. Through violence and tragedy, she finds hidden strength and abilities she never knew she had, even though the man she loves abandons her.

Ur, a prehistoric caveman and expert hunter spies a red-haired woman who he decides he wants as his own. In order to get her he commits heinous atrocities upon her tribe. But he does not understand that she is a shaman. She puts an angry curse on him that causes him to go into a deep sleep. He awakens amid the swirling waters of the sea. He desperately fights out of the water and onto a rocky cliff. A young woman, Sumer, discovers him and the villagers take the sea monster back to their village. They mutilate him in order to subdue and control him. As he heals from his wounds Ur, the ancient...

This is the second book in the series about the Ancient Warrior. This time Ur, the seemingly immortal Ancient Warrior, is awakened on the vast, grassy steppes north of the Black Sea. The goddess has given him a new gift, and this time he is determined to use it to be sure he is never enslaved again. It is 4,500 BC. Saiga antelope, aurochs, large lizards, and horses thunder across the steppes. Nomads wander between the mountains and the sea. Ur sets out to conquer them all.