"I am not afraid of the shadows. I am afraid of those who cast them." Wynne Raven's mother was killed by wolves. Ever since that incident, she has sworn an intense hatred to all members of their kind. However, when she stumbles across Fenrir - a creature of the shadows, neither fully human nor fully wolf - in the woods, she realizes that she has no choice but to help him. However insane or dangerous that choice may prove to be.