The Huntsman

On a warm autumn day Joshua Ferral, huntsman for his village, made an astonishing discovery: a baby boy, not more than two years old, wandering alone in the wilderness that now dominated most of the land. How the boy got there, and how he had survived, was a mystery. Joshua wondered — could They have dropped the boy into the forest? That seemed unlikely — They took people away to be slaves; They didn’t put humans in the forest. Yet the boy was there, and Joshua couldn’t walk away and leave him. And so the boy became Joshua’s foster son, Finn.
Finn Ferral grew to be a master huntsman also, with an almost superhuman instinct for the ways of the wilds. And he needed every scrap of his instinct and his uncanny skills when They came to his village and took Joshua, his foster father, and Jena, his younger foster sister, as slaves. Though no one had ever dared confront these alien beings before, Finn sets off to pursue them. On his journey he encounters terrors and dangers he never knew existed; also along the way, he makes a most unusual friend and ally. But one of his most startling discoveries on his quest to find and rescue his family is about his own origins.
Told with consummate skill by a master storyteller, widely known for his Last Legionary books, this is adventure-packed science fiction that will enthrall its readers.