Synopsis: Their world was threatened - torn asunder from within by the primitive warring of bloodthirsty nomadic tribes; now threatened from without by mysterious strangers. But Jalav, Amazon war leader of the savage Hosta clan, lay dying on a cold battlefield and cared for naught but her spirit's safe flight to the bosom of Mida, patron goddess of the Midanna Amazons. But peace was not to be the lot of Jalav. Abducted in her weakness by a tribe of northern barbarian riders, her destination lay in the frozen arctic wastes, far from her beloved sister warriors and the protective embrace of Mida the Golden. For she was the one spoken of in the prophecy of the Snows - the savior who must travel to the glacial hell of Sigurr's Peak and beyond, and without whom any mission to save their embattled world would surely fail! (from the back cover of the DAW Books first edition)