When Women Held the Fire

Seven Prehistoric Stories of Healing and Survival in the Stone Age

De: Zavesti

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

When Women Held the Fire
She saved a child from deadly danger. They exiled her for it.

Lera is a healer in a Stone Age valley where a dying glacier has poisoned the rivers. When she defies the village elders to expose what’s killing their children, they turn on her — it’s easier to blame one woman than face the vast changes reshaping their world.

The man she loves doesn't follow. So Lera sacrifices everything — the hearth she built, the belonging she earned, the only life she’s ever known — and walks out into the cold rather than stay silent as children die. She is only the first in a line of seven.

Bold, passionate women who heal with their hands and love with their whole hearts
This epic saga spans four thousand years in prehistoric Central Europe (6000 BCE–2300 BCE). Across these ages of upheaval, Lera’s descendants carry on her legacy. Each healer in her bloodline inherits Lera’s courage, her hard-won remedies, and her unyielding spirit.

Each faces a crisis unlike anything her ancestors could have imagined: ash from a distant volcano darkening the sky, a deadly fever sweeping through the clan, a hidden poison arriving with trade goods, even the ground itself shifting underfoot without warning. In a world without magic or miracles, these women rely on their wits and botanical knowledge to save lives.
They read the landscape, gather healing plants under pressure, and make life-or death decisions when failure means death. Their skills are rooted in real prehistoric medicine — the kind of ancient knowledge archaeologists are only now beginning to uncover.

One Valley. Seven Healers. Four Thousand Years.
As generations pass, the valley itself transforms. Ice sheets retreat and lush wetlands bloom where tundra once lay. A distant volcano erupts, burying the land in ash that eventually yields fertile new soil. Later, the once-isolated valley opens into rich farmland crossed by emerging trade routes of a dawning civilization.

Yet through every upheaval, each generation of healer carries the wisdom of her foremothers, adapting it anew to keep her people alive in a world that never stops changing.

You will journey into prehistory at each healer’s side – so close you can smell the woodsmoke and crushed herbs as she battles to protect her people. Each story stands alone yet interlinks as part of an epic saga of family, knowledge, and survival.

You'll love this if you love:

• Prehistoric fiction grounded in real archaeology, where the drama comes from the land, not from magic
• Seven women across forty centuries who heal, defy, and refuse to be silenced
• A sweeping saga that begins when the glaciers are still retreating and ends at the dawn of civilization
• Women whose desires, passions, and heartbreak are as real as their remedies
• Herbalism, healing, and raw survival in a world that hasn't been tamed yet

If you’ve ever wished for more stories of the women who held their communities together — women who knew how to stop bleeding with a root, keep insects away with smoke, and ease a difficult birth with the right herb — then ‘When Women Held the Fire’ will ignite your imagination.

This isn't the Stone Age behind glass — you're at the healer's side, where every decision matters and every season brings a new threat. Step into a valley where ice cracks open, ash falls from darkened skies, and the ground itself breathes poison.