How does a young woman from the New Stone Age meet a modern day archeologist student, and what happens when they do? The Layla Project, a romance novel by Roy Sanders, is truly a unique and romantic love story that just happened to take 9,000 years to unfold! How their romance evolves and what happens along the way is truly a tale to be read. The road blocks, obstacles, and struggles that each of the characters must face to develop this love between them is an emotional trip that any reader would love to explore. The Layla Project is the first book of a trilogy. THE LAYLA PROJECT by Roy Sanders - Josh Gilbert, the privileged son of a neurotic MD mother, had been given the assignment of his young professional life. Still a graduate student in the Dept. of Anthropology at Columbia University, Josh was asked to co-lead a most promising Dig in Alaska. Josh enlists the aid of his two closest friends, Timmy Yu a perennial grad student and womanizer and quiet little Julie Steinberg who carries a secret crush on Josh.Life on the edge of a polar cap 9,000 years ago can be described in two words, Daily Survival. Umma, the teen age daughter of Tomta the tribal chief, had just finished a required dip in the Pool of the Unclean when the ice plate suddenly shifted, a crevice appeared and she fell, instantaneously flash frozen to death.I will do more than my mother, less than my daughter, is the on-going theme in all three books.Love romance stories? Looking for a great new novel? You get to preview the first three chapters of the second book in the trilogy at the end of this romance novel. The Layla Institute is Book Two of the trilogy:THE LAYLA INSTITUTEBOOK TWOIT’S ALL ABOUT DNA,A TRUE MOSAIC IN THE MAKING