Kindle Edition Amazon callanbutkus.com Category:  Action/Thriller Publisher: Amazon ISBN-10:  1440465851 Pages: 336 Copyright: Dec 14, 2010 ISBN-13: 978–1440465857 Price: $2.99 (eBook) Travel the ancient forests and rivers with the first Americans 13,000 years ago in what is now Arkansas.Experience a mammoth hunt where the hunters only carry spears, help fight off a saber tooth cat, huge alligators and turtles, gar's ten feet long, cave bear, giant sloth, and lots of snakes.  Thirteen thousand years ago in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, a small group of Paleo-Americans composed of a hunter, his crippled brother, a slave girl, a boy, and a wolf puppy learn to evade a vicious band of hunters on ancient rivers and bayous. Experience a mammoth hunt where the hunters only carry spears, help fight off a saber tooth cat, huge alligators and turtles, gar's ten feet long, cave bear, giant sloth, and lots of snakes. Learn woodcraft from ancient times, experience the power of a shaman and campfire rituals. The story encompasses: lost love, young love, learning how to learn, weapons development, and moral values. Listen to the echo of times long past and learn how the past effects who we are. If you like action, humor, love, drama, revenge, and an occasional tear, you deserve a trip to The Thinking Rocks.       Excerpt She moved silently through the brush until she reached a huge flat-topped rock on the rim of the valley. The valley stretched out below the rock in a panorama of green and brown. Floating through the shadows cast by the trees around the rock, she stopped and scanned the land before her. This was near the place. His call had come from this valley. Ordinarily she would not have been interested in another of her kind, but the stirring deep within her was not to be ignored. A gentle breeze was blowing past her and down into the valley. Her scent and her special musk would drift down and he would pick it up. It would bring him. Other animals in the valley would also know by her scent that she was near, but they would move away to safety. As if by a self-fulfilling prophecy, she watched, as there was a flicker of movement and then three deer moved out of a thicket and swiftly away from danger. A growl started deep within her and rumbled its way to her throat where it slowly died. In the distance, his cough came to her sensitive ears. The rock in front of her was about eight feet high, and without effort, she leapt to its top, fully exposed she was frightfully beautiful. Her coat was a tawny brown, which faded to white on her stomach. Drawing in a deep breath, she released a roar that had been echoing across continents and through forests for 40 million years. It proclaimed, I am here… This is my land. Any creature traveling in my land is courting death.

I loved it
This book left me craving more. I hope he writes a sequel someday. I will keep looking for one.
It was a book that made me laugh on one page and cry on the next. It was action, adventure and a little young love, just for the fun of it. But nothing too explicit.
Well written and very descriptive. Those snakes scrared the heck out of me. Brrr!!! The other animals were no walk in the park either.
I read it straight through in one evening. I would recommend it to anyone old enough not to have nightmares after reading it.

Intriguing
This novel is an absorbing combination of the mythic, the sweepingly historical and the intensely personal. Loved it and can't wait for more from the author!

I need more
This was a really good read. Well written and I felt as if I was there. I hope there is a sequel I can purchase, if not I will be very disappointed.