| Abstract |
After being forced to leave her village and forget her true love, Echo is given as a bride to one of the high priests in her community, but when the crops begin to fail, she finds herself becoming a leader of her people. Set in the American Southwest in about 900 A.D., this is the story of Echo, a young woman whose destiny as a wife and mother is suddenly changed by an accident. She is forced to leave her village life and her family to marry an aged High Priest, esteemed and feared by the people. In her new life, Echo gains the priest's knowledge and magic, which permit her to help the people in a fearsome time of angry gods and the end of her civilization as she knows it. |
