Twelve-year-old Rae is content as the adopted daughter of shepherds, helping with the flock and revelling in the beauty of her family's hillside farm. But after a frightening encounter with a wolf-to whom she feels a sudden, peculiar connection-Rae realizes there is much more to her past, and her future, than she could have imagined. Meanwhile, a young girl named Alba goes about her days as an oracle's apprentice, a duty that confines her to a distant,...