The greatest danger is the one you don't see coming.

Head down, mouth shut—Askari is trying to keep her place among the Baratok after the rarohan attack left her people scarred and grieving. But when a stranger rides into camp with news of monsters carrying healing blood, she sees a chance to protect her community from further loss.

The hunt turns into a nightmare. Marked as prey by a monster that refuses to stop pursuing her, Askari flees into the wilderness with Harcos and Shujaa at her side. Every step takes her farther from the Baratok—and closer to the abandoned city of Dod.

She hopes the city might offer reprieve... but instead, it holds horrors she could never have imagined.

Askari wanted to heal her people. Instead, she may have doomed herself.

This book contains fantasy violence.

This is the second edition.