When everyone around you becomes unreliable, even dangerous, can you trust a wild wolf? Nella Khron partakes in her first wolf cull for a pack of illegally bred wolfdogs. She fails to shoot and hand over the wolf to protect herself, forming an unexpected bond with the mother wolf, Silence, who escapes. Soon she realizes that the wolf's presence is connected to the murder of a fellow hunter and a criminal network terrorizing her hometown, and that her uncle, Roland, knows far more than he lets on. Ostracized by her family and community, Nella has no one but herself and the wolf to trust. But can she guarantee that Silence won't turn on her?