Bitter and disillusioned, Nici, a member of a race of fox people known as Kitsuns, has been running from her bloody past and her sister's ghost for almost twenty summers. In her travels through the Lochren Range with the Tenjic, a clan of fierce fighters and clever misfits, she thought she had seen it all. Every nightmare and horror story monster the Range threw at them, Nici and the Tenjic had faced down. Nici even had trade arrangements with a few of those monsters. But when a pack of rogue werewolves abducts Ruse, her brother and only remaining family, Nici learns that there is something far worse than water demons and trolls lurking in the Range. Nici will have to face her past if she stands any chance of saving her brother from an ancient threat that hasn't been seen for generations.