The People of the Mesa
by Ardath Mayhar
Price: $4.95 USD. 60360 words.
Published by The Fiction Works on June 6, 2010. Fiction.
To protect his people, Uhtatse urges them to build houses in the sheltering cliffsides, but the Elders refuse. Uhtatse builds such a house and when the enemy arrives, the Elders admit their people would be safer there. They repel a Tsununni attack, defeating their enemy. At the end of his long life, Uhtatse steps off the point from which his grieving wife cast herself, years earlier.
Member Since: June 06, 2010
Ardath Mayhar
Biography
Author of sixty novels, forty of them published by standard print publishers, Ardath Mayhar began her career in the early eighties with science fiction novels from Doubleday and TSR. Atheneum published several of her Y/A and children's novels. Changing focus, she wrote westerns (as Frank Cannon) and mountain man novels (as John Killdeer). Four prehistoric Indian books under her own name from Berkley. Now more than seventy years old, Mayhar has recently been widowed, after forty-one years of marriage. A car wreck lamed her for a time, but she recovered. She now works in her home office in East Texas, teaching writing, doing book doctoring professionally, and continuing to write.
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