"After his wife's death, a man brings his young daughter to live in a cave he has found in the Cascade mountains. Once there, his daughter begins to sense the presence of other people in the cave, a mother and son who retreated there during the last ice age in an effort to survive"--

A brilliant and beautiful scientist and a mysterious special ops soldier must lead a team deep into the Earth on a desperate hunt for the cure to a deadly epidemic.

"Headley's fourth novel is ... a darkly electric reinterpretation of Beowulf that upends its Old English framework to comment on the nature of heroes and how we "other" those different from ourselves. It deftly interweaves a host of contemporary themes, from racial tension to veterans' reintegration, political corruption, and female power. In modern suburbia, a well-regulated gated community is juxtaposed against the frightening, untamed wildness...