Mother of Asili — Debra Austin

Half a million years ago, a Homo erectus woman fights to save her tribe from destruction. Mother of Asili, a novel by Debra Austin, continues the story of Snap, who was exiled from her birth tribe in Daughter of Kura and is now the matriarch of the Asili tribe. After a series of increasingly suspicious disasters, she must discover whether the threat to her people comes from a reserved stranger, from Kura, or from within.