Shaylee is the daughter of a drunkard, but he wasn't always that way. Once he was the tribe's druid. She knows nothing about her mother, only that her father won't talk about it with her. The village treats her as an outcast and the only comfort she finds is in a new found friend, Oran. As she comes of age she finds that she has strange new abilities that put her in touch with the world around her and the mystery of her mother and the village's attitude toward her slowly unravels.