She wasn't ready. A new being in the world. And she may never be. Arlise is a new creature in the world. She's lived without parents. When she first goes to school, at age 14, she feels as though she will never fit in. Some thing she wasn't even more prepared for? That the high school was for werewolves. And they don't take a liking to her kind. Even if she is the last of it.