Book two of the "McKay McDaniel" pathfinder trilogy. After safely guiding the husband and wife to the meadowlands, pathfinder McKay McDaniel enters the forest to return to his home when he hears a cry for help. He knows it is dangerous to leave the path, but there is something familiar about the faint cry he hears coming from deep within the forest. He then does something a pathfinder never does. McKay McDaniel leaves the path and follows the cry for help, deep into the very nest of the Natrass