Will Baker, The Raven Bride Hardcover 1998 UK 1st Edition 1st Print Dust Jacket

The time: an uncomfortably close tomorrow. The place: one of the wildest and remotest on planet Earth - the lower Kolyma River watershed near the Koryak region of northeastern Siberia. Here a beautiful young woman, Satchi, half Russian and half Koryak, is drawn reluctantly into the primal, sometimes horrific way of life of the native reindeer herdsmen when they take her from a wrecked research outpost to their distant camp.\n\nDespite her misgivings, Satchi's fascination with the herder clan grows - especially when she discovers that they are probably the last in Siberia to live the old way, even though they do from time to time deliver reindeer meat to a mysterious team of Americans and Russians at a secret camp in the tundra.\n\nAs Satchi's involvement with the Koryaks intensifies - due largely to a mystical possession experience she has when her spirit fuses with that of a raven during a funeral ceremony - she is unaware that sinister, lethal forces from the encroaching outside wo.