This paperback young adult novel depicts a distant future over 150 years after the mysterious "Cleansing", which has left humanity struggling to survive near extinction in a hostile world.  Their skills and close affinity with nature have evolved in unusual ways to help them live and even thrive in the new, beautiful but untamed environment.  Trading with other pockets of humans has become critical to survival, and when the traveling party from Emilura's settlement arrives at the huge village to the north of nearly 700 people, they find they must trade more than just supplies for a successful encounter.  They must learn each other's ways quickly and work together to overcome an unexpected danger that threatens to destroy all that they've worked for decades to accomplish.

  The book is 6" x 9" and 215 pages, with a large enough font to read easily.