A girl who lost her parents and blames her pack for their death leaves her pack and goes off on her own. She's only 18 and now she has to look after herself, she has no one. She settles in a small town in Washington where there's lots of forest and rain, her two favorite things. She decides to attend the towns High School because she thinks thats what her parents would want, she gets a job, and finds a nice apartment to live in, she keeps to herself until she has the strangest feeling and turns to see a pair of eyes staring at her and not just any pair of eyes but her mate's.