This is a book about a marvelous lost world, a sisterhood of beings powerful beyond imagining. About a secret so subversive it meant death if discovered. About courage great enough to believe and to pass down through hundreds of generations of women...the truth of who we once were, of who we most amazingly still are. It is a book about gender - a hidden, profoundly taboo gender. To be more exact, it is about a species of beings whose existence and nature have been deliberately - and most entirely - erased from memory. Now at the end of men's world these memories are becoming increasingly irrepressible, and beginning to tell us an amazing story. About a time foretold for centuries by the women of ancient peoples and now almost upon us.