Talia is born into the Ironbone Wolf Tribe without a beast mark, so her father Lord Malakor throws her off a cliff. The White Bear Lord Bram pulls her out and raises her as his own daughter. Twenty years later she walks back into the wolf territory with her real power hidden inside a herbal pouch. She wakes the legendary marks, breaks Malakor, strips her half sister Zoya of the stolen power, and carries her mother Sylvia home.