Refugium

<p><strong>In the Last Surviving Forest of a Shattered World Three Ancient Hominids Stand Against Brutal Invaders. </strong></p><p>74000 BCE. The Toba super-eruption has plunged Southeast Asia into volcanic winter. In this apocalyptic wasteland survival lies only in rare sheltered pockets of land -- <em>refugia</em>.</p><p>A young primitive man and the remnants of his clan find one such haven: a mist-shrouded forest shielded from the ash-choked world beyond. He is known as Last -- the smallest weakest an outcast among his people. His sole mission: protect his eight-year-old brother the only family he has left.</p><p>But when a more advanced human species invades slaughtering the clan and enslaving the women and children Last must form an uneasy alliance with two dangerous forest hominids -- one dwarflike the other monstrous -- to rescue the boy he loves.</p><p><em>Refugium</em> is a fact-based prehistoric thriller set against one of Earth's deadliest extinction events. It boldly pushes the limits of hope human endurance and the most extraordinary interspecies alliance ever forged.</p><p>A brutal thrilling novel about what it takes to become an apex predator.</p><p> -- <em>Foreword Clarion Reviews</em></p><p><em>Refugium</em> succeeds as both a gripping survival narrative and a profound meditation on human consciousness.</p><p><em> -- IndieReader</em></p>