Wolves Start Calling

50 years after General Zoya Nazyalenski assumed the throne of Ravka and King Ilya and Queen Mila took reins of the government of Fjerda, the two nations are at war again - this time to bolster the forces of their Shu Han allies in the north, who are fighting a radical separatist group intent on plunging the Shu into a deadly civil war. Rumors abound that the same forces that enabled the Darkling to take hold have returned for a third run, plunging the entire continent into uncertainty and fear.

Captain Saartje Diduryk has done the impossible: seven years ago, she survived the grueling training program of the drüskelle, and reported to her first duty station as the first female member of the newly integrated strike force. Now a company commander in the Fjerdan military's first all-purpose special operations group, Captain Diduryk is sent south with her men to serve as a military advisor for the North Shu army in conjunction with Fjerda's Ravkan allies. Although Diduryk has been through hell and back in her career already, she is forced to face her fears in the most unexpected of places - the jungles of Shu Han.