The sky-river calls Lilau Noka and Makotae on to new lands across the dying plains. What they find will threaten their lives, but at this point, they would expect nothing less.

After being cast out from the tribe she grew up in, wolf rider Lilau and her Great Wolf Makotae fled into an even bigger problem — A new tribe with new problems, but familiar distrust. There, many blamed her for a sickness only she could identify, and not even an apprenticeship to the Medicine Chief could shield her from the anger of others, or her own insecurities. After doing what she could to give the tribe a chance at surviving the coming disaster on their lands, she fled once more. She doesn't know what she seeks. She just knows she hasn't found it yet.