Under A Stand Still Moon
Ann Howard Creel
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
2005 Brown Barn Books
ISBN: 0974648183

Set in prehistoric American Southwest, a girl comes of age & must use her powers to change her world.

On the mesas & plains of the American Southwest, an ancient people once built great dwellings & sacred places, & hunted, farmed, traded, & worshipped their mighty gods. This is the story of Echo, whose destiny changes when her family marries her to the much older High Priest, Sun Watch, whose knowledge & magic govern the People.

Echo's coming of age happens during terrifying times when the Sun is being eaten, the Rain Gods' anger makes the crops fail, & murderous nomads attack the People's villages. Can the magic Echo learns from her husband help to save her people?

Under A Stand Still Moon is a brilliant journey back in time & place to the great & vanished Anasazi civilization. Ann Howard Creel has deftly breathed life back into these ancient people & how they lived their lives.

A great read for lovers of pre-history & how religion & weather took its toll, & how our heroine survives.

More from Ann Howard Creel:
A Ceiling of Stars
Nowhere, Now Here
Water at the Blue Earth
Adult Fiction: The Magic of Ordinary Days

Copyright
(10/09/05)

Rebecca