"Nika of all people, knows not to get her heart set on anything. She and her little brother have bounced from foster home to foster home for nearly two years now. But when a phone call from their long-lost uncle sets them on a journey in a small plane over the thick green forest canopy and into the wild lake country of Minnesota, Nika stumbles upon a relationship that has the potential to make her feel--for the first time since her mother died--whole again. Here in these woods, with this wolf, she is hoping that the hard things in her past won't be able to reach her."