How do you win a battle lost 6,000 years before you were born?  How do you make sure that winning that battle doesn't lose you the war?  Lieutenant Launa O'Brian and Captain Jack Walking Bear have won their first battle and made their first recruits.  But the whole steppe is up in arms and the tribes are wandering.  How do they create a peace that will last 6,000?  Here is the exciting continuation of the saga started in First Dawn.