Menolly is distracted from planning her promise ceremony with her werepuma lover when she learns that Shadow Wing wants to reignite the Scorching Wars and that the Lord of Ghosts is trying to control Earthside's magical beings.
Delilah D'Artigo, a two-faced werecat and Death Maiden, must stop Newkirk, the new leader of the coyote shifters who has joined forces with a group of rogue sorcerers, from ruining her friend Iris's wedding.