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For every young man and woman raised on the wild plains, receiving their totem and earning the spirit's acceptance is everything. Taillay is no different. Blessed by the spirits with great skill and beauty, she is restlessly waiting for them to deem her ready for a totem, for adulthood, the gateway to her strongest desire-initiation into the tribe's huntsmen. Still, year after year, watching as others received theirs, Taillay remains a wild child, exempted from all the adult ceremonies.
Not only is Taillay's patience wearing thin. Kierrion, the tribe's young chief-to-be, is anxiously waiting for Taillay to grow up, too, having long since set his heart and desires on the rebellious beauty. But an unpredictable calamity strikes, and Taillay is forced into a position no one can save her from, not even Kierrion.