Frostpaw is an apprentice when a badger attacks her and her clanmates. After this, she is literally scarred for life and the clan grows large and restless, fights breaking out. When a mysterious prophecy is delivered to her and her brother, they must figure out the meaning or the clan might be lost forever. But while all this is going on, there is a battle in her heart, she doesn't want to do what the prophecy wants but she has to, or will Sunclan be lost forever?