title: Samantha and the Bear
author: Greenstein, Jay
description: Samantha Hanover has survived a brutal winter on Oregon’s high plains. Now, with spring in the air, she hopes to put her past behind her—until she meets Rob Reiker, a man who triggers visions of a woman who lived at the end of the last ice age.
  Teal-Eye, the subject of Samantha’s visions watched her parents die, in a night of terror that included the brutal loss of her innocence.  She is far from her home and her people.  Now, her one chance at happiness, marrying the man she calls Bear, is about to be taken from her, unless she can help Samantha escape from those who would kill her.
  Samantha and Teal-Eye must unravel a problem as old as humanity, one of childhood and maturity, one involving a chain of woman reaching from the far distant past into our present.