Willow Creek

It was a low-pitched growl, without tone and sounding almost like a rapid series of clicks, as if saying, "I belong here and you don't." They turned and looked but couldn't see anything-no creature, no shape or form. Just an unfocused image of space. Unseen things, like the things that go bump in the night, can run away with our perceptions and nurture imaginations and feed fears. The situation in which he now found himself was unnerving, to say the least. Wil realized they had come up against the very thing he'd been looking for while fearing he'd find it.

The African Rift wasn't just the site of a horrifying discovery; it's the gulf between belief and unbelief, the division between accepted "fact" and fundamental truth and a challenge to understand who we are.
In this second installment in the Rift hominid series, the action moves from the African Rift to northern California. And we are brought to new discoveries-discoveries that lead our team into tragedy and a deeper understanding of where they fit into God's creation, of learning that unbelief doesn't change what is. And that Truth, indeed, trumps popular "facts."