THE SUMMONING GOD; Book Two of the Anasazi Mysteries

New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book / TOR, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. Diagram. SIGNED by BOTH Authors on the half title, tall 8vo, black cloth with irridescent light blue lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a silvered native American stylized lizard, illustrated with diagram [~ frontispiece] of Native American habitation; tiny Indian designs repeated as chapter heads, faint Anasazi deer designs on endpapers, 366 pages. Book Two of the Anasazi Mysteries.<br/><br/>Kathleen O'Neal Gear (1954) is an award-winning American writer. She conducted Ph.D. studies in American Indian history at the University of California, LA. Gear was also a former state historian and archaeologist for Wyoming, Kansas, and Nebraska for the U.S. Department of the Interior. She has twice received the federal government's Special Achievement Award for "outstanding management" of America's cultural heritage, and has published fifty novels. She is perhaps best known for her North America's Forgotten Past series, co-authored with her husband W. Michael Gear.<br/><br/>W. Michael Gear (born 1955) is an American archaeologist, former consultant, and writer of 56 novels. He is the author of North America's Forgotten Past series about North American prehistory, co-written with wife Kathleen O'Neal Gear.