Book excerpt: Nearly twenty thousand years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, when vast glaciers still held much of the world in their grip, the forces of passion and power collide, creating a love triangle between a powerful human king and two of the great spirits of the earth: Nokomis, the Gentle Spirit of the Earth, and Tohopka, the Wild Spirit of the Earth. Jealousy and the lust for power drive a vengeful chase and consuming conflict that span a lifetime and two continents. This is a story that takes love and revenge to the limits of the human heart. The final desperate attempt at justice rains environmental destruction on the planet and fuels a desire for domination that still resides deep in the hearts of much of mankind to this day. This is the story of where humankind’s war on nature begins.