Summary

First entry in a new series of linked novellas from New York Times bestselling authors Harry Turtledove, S.M. Stirling, John Ringo, and Jody LynnNye! After the extinction asteroid DOESN'T strike Earth, the dinosaurs keepevolving -- but so do the mammals. We mammals have achieved human-likeshapes, but now it's cold-blooded, magic-using reptiles against the hot-blooded,hot-tempered descendants of cats! In a heroic, bronze-age world similar to 300 , the Mrem Clan of theClaw and its sister warbands are expanding their rough-and-tumble territory, butnow they face the Lishkash, masters of a cold-blooded empire of slave armies andmagic. It's mammalian courage and adaptation against reptile cunning in a clashof steel and will that will determine which line shall inherit theEarth!