After escaping Trail's End, Quinn and Declan race across the North Dakota prairie seeking sanctuary from the store they know will soon be following them. With Declan injured, and winter bearing down, they find refuge in the home of a healer and her family. In Trail's End, Quinn's eldest brother Airell makes a ghastly disocvery that sets him on a course of revenge. He leaves behind all he holds dear in order to fulfill an oath, and to return Quinn to Trail's End to meet her fate.