Call of the Owl Woman

A Novel of Ancient Peru

K.M. Huber

• Publisher: SparkPress
• eBook ISBN:
  9781684633050
• Year: 2025

In a tale inspired by Peru’s Andean cosmovision and earth-centered spirituality, Call of the Owl Woman is a gripping coming-of-age story for people who like to immerse themselves in other times, places, and cultures, people who love adventure, and those who are drawn to the mystical and magical.

In sixth-century Peru, the Nasca people have flourished for centuries, their faith and ingenuity keeping the desert valleys green in a land where water is scarce. But a prolonged drought now fuels dangerous unrest. Cunning sorcerers and brutal priests vie for control, and Water Guardians like Patya’s father, who refuse to favor the powerful, are under attack.

Devastated by her grandmother’s sudden death, fifteen-year-old Patya retreats into dance and music. She does not want to become a healer like the long lineage of women in her family before her. Even her grandmother had hinted she was born for something else. But, in the wake of a deadly earthquake, Patya must not only help the healers, she must do things she never thought possible. As she begins to conquer her self-doubts and trust her own sense of justice, she will also have to outwit men of power to keep her little brother from being sacrificed by religious extremists at the coming solstice.

As Patya begins to realize and grow into her own power, she also discovers her grandmother’s secret legacy and prepares to step into an unexpected destiny.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Map
• Intro
• Cast of Characters
• Chapter 1. Loss
• Chapter 2. Pachamama Speaks
• Chapter 3. Caravan
• Chapter 4. Weq’o’s Challenge
• Chapter 5. Echoes
• Chapter 6. Wedding Dance
• Chapter 7. The Mission
• Chapter 8. Kuyllay’s Grove
• Chapter 9. Shifting Ground
• Chapter 10. Pilgrimage
• Chapter 11. What Is Found
• Chapter 12. Aftermath
• Chapter 13. Cahuachi
• Chapter 14. Amaruyu
• Chapter 15. Waqar
• Chapter 16. Mishka
• Chapter 17. Otocco
• Chapter 18. Mochico
• Chapter 19. Home
• Chapter 20. Revelations
• Chapter 21. Monkeys
• Chapter 22. Achiq
• Chapter 23. Ceremony
• Chapter 24. Return
• Chapter 25. Forward
• Glossary
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
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