Seitka is a young shapeshifter who has a hard time following orders. When she disobeys her brother by going into the forest to search for herbs, she discovers that she should have listened to him when he told her it wasn't safe. Now, she must pay the consequences for her actions, and she may lose her fiancé in the process. The evil leader of a rival wildcat shifter clan has left her with child and she flees to the protection of the abbey, thinking this is best for her clan and her child. But Daniel, her fiancé, follows her, and a new alliance is formed between the lairds, their healer wives and the shifter couple. Seitka has been told that her child is destined to do great things. Will the babe survive long enough to grow, train with the lairds and fulfil that destiny? Or will his evil biological father destroy him before he even has a chance?