Anthropologist Bronwyn Bloom specializes in the study of Neanderthals.
On the way to teaching her first class of the semester, she witnesses a disturbing incident in a local park but doesn't intervene. When Bronwyn learns later that she was the only witness to the abduction of a young boy, she takes it upon herself to find the boy.
Her obsessive search leads to a violent confrontation with the abductor, and is the catalyst for discovering that her connection to the Neanderthals isn't just academic — it's deeply personal. It triggers deep memories of her own - Neanderthal - ancestor. Can her memories of a Neanderthal girl who lived 40,000 years ago help her to find the boy and to understand who she really is?
Nightsong by M.J. Rhodes is a mystery about ancestry. What do we carry in our DNA from our ancient ancestors that might influence who we are and how we react to the world around us?