Anthropologist Yute Nahadeh stumbles upon the scientific discovery of the millenia: a tiny embryo in the womb of a 25,000-year-old Neanderthal, preserved in arctic ice. So begins a secret research. He implants the embryo in a surrogate mother, and a Neanderthal girl is born in our time. Named Ember, she is raised among the Quanoot Indians of Whaler Bay, Washington. Guided by a shaman who has waited for her return, pursued by the man of science who brought her to life, Ember is drawn to a place where no one else can go—where her ancestors, the golden-skinned people of her dreams, wait for her to set them free. “Weaves a genuinely magic spell.” Kirkus Reviews Kirkus Reviews : "An engrossing debut novel...An effective blend of scientific fact and shamanistic fancy, one that weaves a genuinely magic spell." Lisa Dumond, MEviews.com : "I am never more astounded than when I encounter a new talent that seems so refined as to be mistaken for an old master. The story moves easily from chapter to chapter, almost in the style of a campfire storytelling. In fact, the book reads so smoothly you forget that it takes a honed talent to arrange words in such a manner." Booklist: "Unique and appealing, with an engaging heroine, furious action, and intriguing tidbits of history, archaeology, and Native American culture." Linda Lay Shuler , author of She Who Remembers: "A remarkable achievement, passionate, lyrical, stunning in concept. Rich in background detail and exciting action, this extraordinary novel lingers in the memory." Madeline L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time: "A fascinating novel. Ember is a delightful protagonist and thoroughly believable." Library Journal: "Unforgettable." Romantic Times: "What would happen if you combined Jean Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear and Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park ? You'd get something like the wonderfully imaginative EMBER FROM THE SUN . ... A masterful story. Readers will be enthralled by Ember's search for the truth. This is a book not to be missed." San Francisco Chronicle : "Canter gains the reader's wholehearted sympathy for Ember and her plight. The characters are what make this story work." Paul McAuley, Interzone : "...depicts the triumph of humanism...informed by a deep sympathy with the estrangement of its eponymous heroine, a Neanderthal girl born into the end of the 20th century...Canter's portrayal is romantic yet convincing." The Redemptive Power of Love    I'm a true romantic. Each of my novels expresses the same moral theme: Love (not power) is the only force that can render us fearless.  This also is a central theme of so-called "Romanticism"--the artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that began in Europe at the end of the 18th century and peaked in the 19th century, and included the works of Whitman, Emerson, and Thoreau. Another recurring idea that drove the Romantic Era is the revelatory wisdom and beauty of nature. My novels always explore the wonder and wildness, bliss and terror of the human body within the natural world ("Eros" writ with a capital "E").   My story about a Neanderthal girl, born today and raised among us, expresses the universal theme of the great need to accept and love ourselves as we are.   In addition to English it has been published in Japanese, German, Polish, French, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Spanish, and Catalan.   In the blue ice of an arctic cave, a scientist has made an extraordinary discovery: a woman's body, frozen for 25,000 years in a near-perfect state, with pliant tissues, vessels filled with blood--and an embryo waiting to be born.... They called her Ember, the child of their heart, born to surrogate parents who refused to yield her after birth. Raised among the Quanoot Indians, Ember is as modern as those around her, a young woman struggling with a loneliness and yearning she does not yet understand. Stronger than her classmates, imbued with the power to heal, Ember's soul resounds with the cries and whispers of a time she has never seen, and of a people who beckon her home. Desperate to unravel the mystery of her birth, Ember embarks on a spellbinding journey to find the people who call to her in her dreams. Guided by a shaman who has waited for her return, pursued by the man of science who brought her to life, Ember is drawn to a place where no one else can go--where her ancestors, the golden-skinned people of her dreams, wait for her to set them free.... Mark Canter was raised in Kentucky hill country in a metropolis of 400 tobacco and hog farmers, where he belonged to the only Jewish family in the cosmos. In his dharma-bum youth, he hitchhiked and jumped trains across the Western States and Canada and went through jobs from pizza chef to surgical orderly, massage therapist to rock-show stagehand. After getting a journalism degree, he wrote for a few Florida newspapers before landing the senior editor post at Men's Health magazine. His non-fiction w