Length5h 41m
About this audiobook
Eleven thousand five hundred years ago, on a coast no map has yet named, a tribe led by women lives by the old ways.
Red Hands has guided her people for most of her life. Now, as age presses on her, she takes on a protégé: Bright Eyes, a young woman with much to learn and more to prove. Red Hands passes on what she knows, from reading the land to the naming ceremony of the Blue, in which the Star People recognize the newly named as their own. Then a death in the family reopens an old wound between Red Hands and her estranged sister, Fast Weaver.
Bright Eyes will learn to lead. Understanding the woman who taught her will take longer.
Red Hands is a quiet, human story about family, duty and what one generation leaves the next. Its premise is a simple one: people are the same across millennia.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction
Length5 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 21, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 — The Boy at the River
2Chapter 2 — Two Ceremonies, One Fire
3Chapter 3 — Whispers in the Smoke
4Chapter 4 — The Question She Won’t Answer
5Chapter 5 — Salt in the Spring
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6Chapter 6 — The Council of Five
7Chapter 7 — Empty Snares
8Chapter 8 — The Salt Pans
9Chapter 9 — The Long Night
10Chapter 10 — Traders from the Mountains
11Chapter 11 — The Price of the Blue
12Chapter 12 — What the Body Knows
13Chapter 13 — Faster Lessons
14Chapter 14 — The Naming of Others
15Chapter 15 — Letting Him Fall
16Chapter 16 — The Elder’s Vote
17Chapter 17 — The Sacred Trade
18Chapter 18 — Without Her
19Chapter 19 — The Cost of Choosing
20Chapter 20 — The Last Council
21Chapter 21 — The Withheld Answer
22Chapter 22 — Red Hands Goes to the Stars
23Chapter 23 — The Preparation
24Chapter 24 — Her Own Answer
25Epilogue — Many Winters Later
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