All her life Canowic has known she does not belong. Abandoned at birth and raised by a powerful shaman who teaches her to read the seeing stones of antiquity, she longs to uncover the secret of her origins. She gets her chance after a corrupt king's death plunges the great city of Aghuax into chaos, though enlightenment proves more costly than she could have ever imagined.She gets her chance after a corrupt king's death plunges the great city of Aghuax into chaos, though enlightenment proves more costly than she could ever have imagined. When the newly widowed queen summons Canowic to interpret a dream, the young seer is thrust upon a journey that will test her courage and push her to the bitter edge of survival. Making her way through lonely glades in the company of a pack of mythic wolves, she hurries toward a final confrontation that will prove whether love can truly conquer violence.