Amora-Tae is a Jir, daughter of the Guider of the Treestalker Clan, and thoroughly used to fighting. For survival, for fun, and soon, for everything she knows. Amora-Tae spent her first years believing she would lead a normal life as a Guider: find a suitable mate, raise a family, lead her Clan, forge alliances, and die. Yet, when her life is wracked by loss and chaos, and she finds an opportunity to to take her life by the horns and sinks her teeth into it, she realizes normal was never written into her life. She finds herself thrown headfirst into global events that threaten to push her whole world to a precipice, and must decide for herself how much she can really give, and where her loyalties and priorities lie.