After a great flood, many warriors are dead and over a dozen kits are left in the beginning of leaffall with a clan that can hardly support them. Their chances of survival are slim and to make matters worse, one of them has a power that DragonClan has spent long years trying to forget the tragic backstory for. Rushkit may not know what lies in store, but she is determined to face it with claws unsheathed. Along with the charismatic Novakit and her best enemy, Nettlekit, not to mention a host of kits ready to fight for a starving clan, she hopes to learn every secret of DragonClan, not knowing why they were hidden to begin with. Meanwhile, the former bearer of the power the clan so fears is watching from the shadows, and down in the tunnels danger lurks in every empty corridor...