Clan of the Wolfdogs transports readers into the raw, prehistoric period to experience how we became modern humans, and dogs became our best allies.
Inspired by the research of noted paleoanthropologist Dr. Pat Shipman, young Irik struggles to live up to his father's expectations while his mother nurtures him in a culture that demands he take a woman at fourteen winters and kill others at sixteen.
The boy's preternatural ability to capture the spiritual connection between humans and animals by drawing them on cave walls is lost when his clan chief father is killed by lions during a hunt. To redeem his honor, he tames and trains wolves to help slaughter whole herds of game and becomes a powerful clan chief.
Irik proves himself by bringing the clan through unheard of natural disasters and past the brink of starvation, until a pact with a cannibalistic tribe turns deadly. When his first mate, the clan's territory, and its mother wolf are all lost in a second battle with the White Tribe, will he seek revenge?
Or will Arol, his childhood soulmate, come back into his life to help him evolve and find a better, more humanistic way? The story will inspire you to consider your own beliefs about today's tribal culture.
