Cinnamon is a normal prairie drake, a scout of the Darkmoon Pack. When she is promoted to a delta, she is honoured and astonished, fully ready to do everything she can for her pack. But new missions put her in other packs territories, where she realizes the severity of the phrases "bone pack" and "blood pack". She is convinced that there is more that her pack could do to save the sad, suffering drakes, but her matriarch won't listen to her. Through a series of events she ends up banished, forced to become an outsider, and soon she ends up caught under the claws of the worst matriarch of all...