Imaginative and impulsive twelve-year-old Sybil chafes at the monotony of her everyday life. She’s excited by the rare opportunity to don her crimson cloak and venture into the forbidding forest to tend to her ailing grandmother. On her journey, she finds she is destined for a much more daunting task: she must discover what dark force has wounded the Darach Mor, the ancient oak that nourishes all creation. Surprisingly, Sybil learns she must seek out one of the legendary Laoch Wolves—giant, mythical beasts she has been taught to fear her entire life—to be her protector. 

 

With the help of this magical wolf and her raven guide, Sybil must thwart a calculating wizard’s plan to usurp Faerie power and eliminate all he deems flawed, weak, or useless from the world. Under the wizard’s cruel vision of perfection, Sybil’s elderly grandmother and her little brother would be eliminated, among countless others, simply because of their age or difference. Sybil must find courage and strength she doesn’t know she possesses to save the people she holds dear before they—and the entire world as she knows it—are eradicated.