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Name of book: The Fires of Spring Author Name: Mary Mackey ISBN: 0-451-19589-2 Publisher: Onyx Type of book: young adult-adult, Pre-historical Europe Year it was published: 1998 Part of a Series: The Year the Horses Came, The Horses at the Gate, previously Summary: The year is 4300 BC. The place is Europe, where Eastern nomads have invaded Shara, a civilized city that worships the great Goddess...and where a bold and passionate young woman named Keshna comes of age as a female warrior and a daring avenger. The nomad diviner Changar has kidnapped Queen Marrah's son Keru-and Keshna has vowed to hunt Changar down. But the barbaric Changar is a force to fear. He has taken possession of Keru's spirit and turned him against his own people. Across a land of warring tribes, primitive rituals, and savage terrors of nature, Keshna begins an epic struggle for survival as she battles a dangerous, seductive enemy with the power to destroy her people and the proud young ...

Name of book: The Horses at the gate Author Name: Mary Mackey ISBN: 0-451-40723-7 Publisher: Onyx fiction Type of book: Adult, pre-historical fiction Year it was published: 1995 Part of a series: The Year the Horses Came, before, Fires of Spring afterwards Summary: In the year 4368 BC, Marrah, daughter of the peace-loving shore people, has fled captivity from the nomad warrior horde who have a lust for carnage and conquest that is alien to her. Across a landscape of frozen steppes and trackless forest, she and her companions must evade the horsenemn before they reach her beloved homeland by the sweetwater sea. Making escape even more dangerous is hte presence of her lover, Stavan, who has abandoned his place of honor among the nomads to join her in her flight and ally himself wiht the Mother Goddess. Marrah is forced to puer convictions and courage to the supreme test-as she risks everything she and her people hold dear-in a struggle that will change the prehistoric ...

Name of Book: The year the horses came Author Name: Mary Mackey ISBN: 0-06-250735-4 Publisher: Harper Collins Type of book: Adult, pre-historical fiction Year it was published: 1993 Part of a Series: Horses at the gate, Fires of spring, afterwards Summary: The year is 4372 B.C.E a beautiful girl is poised on the brink of womanhood and her culture is about to undergo one of the most momentous transformations in human history. So begins Mary Mackey's dazling tale, a page-turning saga that revisits the wild and panoramic beauty of ancient Europe to tell a story of extraordinary love and passion in the midst of intrigue and war. The Year the Horses came vividly evokes the violent moment in prehistory when marauding nomads brought horses, male gods and war to a Europe that had known peace for thousands of years. Against this perilous backdrop, a passionate, dangerous love develops between Marrah, a brave and gifted priestess, and Stavan, one of hte warriors sent to...