Sleeps With Wolves

A hybrid girl. A killer’s trail. A brutal Ice Age wilderness.

Fourteen-year-old Elka—half Neanderthal, half Homo sapiens—has always lived on the margins of her tribe. When a deadly raid leaves her father near death and her brother slain, she sets off alone with her wolf companion, Misha, determined to track the killers and take vengeance. But in a world where snow falls hard, prey is scarce, and trust is rarer still, survival demands more than courage.

As Elka navigates harsh terrain and haunting memories, Sleeps with Wolves delivers a gripping tale of endurance, identity, and the ancient bond between human and animal. Drawing on cutting-edge paleoanthropology, bestselling author and scientist Neil Bockoven weaves fact and fiction into a visceral journey through Paleolithic Europe—where clan rivalries erupt, sea-borne outsiders arrive with strange tools and customs, and a young woman’s strength may rewrite the fate of her people.

For readers of Jean M. Auel and Kathleen O’Neal Gear, Sleeps with Wolves is prehistoric historical fiction at its most feral and human.