<p><strong>The world is changing and Kolina Steelscale must learn how to bend with it or risk breaking her chance of a stronger future.</strong></p><p> </p><p>Kolina Steelscale dedicated her life to her Queen and her people serving as a guardian of the hidden archipelago populated with female dragon shifters and as a member of the queen's personal Honor Guard.</p><p>The king of an enemy tribe is dead and the two female dragon shifters who had been his prisoners are still missing.</p><p>One of the missing is Kolina's pregnant daughter while the other is the queen's long-lost ambassador.</p><p>The queen charges Kolina with finding out what happened in the mountain lair of the dead king and bringing her subjects home safely.</p><p>Kolina travels to Black River grudgingly to seek out Odson Blackridge to tell her where the king's mountain lair is.</p><p>While awaiting his return she spends time with Black River's bear clan matron Heidi Brant who instigates a slight detour in Kolina's mission which results in a journey she never could have imagined.</p><p>A journey that opens her eyes and her heart to accept a different way of living. To re-examine her past choices and learn how to heal old heart aches.</p><p>For herself and for her people.</p>