Midsummer midnight: the endless white night of the far north.
Malyuta, slave and hunter, names his first born son 'Ambrosi' because it means
'Immortal.
'
Then comes Kuzma, the bear-shaman, who claims the baby as his apprentice. He promises Malyuta riches or even the return of his youth, if he will give up his new-born son.
Malyuta refuses, throughout the long night. The bear-shaman leaves, at last, declaring that keeping the baby will bring Malyuta nothing but misery.
It is never wise to anger a shaman. Kuzma watches as Ambrosi grows...
Can Ambrosi escape the bear-shaman? Can he protect his father from the Kuzma's revenge?
Book Two of the Ghost World sequence, which began with
Ghost Drum
and continues with
Ghost Dance
.