Cayden Richards has it all: captain of the high school football team, wakes one night to find his parents brutally murdered, he is horrified to realize that he is turning into an animal: a savage wolf. Panicked, Cayden runs. His quest leads him to the isolated town of Lupine Ridge, where two clans of wolves are on the brink of war. The opposing clans are lead by Connor, the powerful, pure-blood alpha of a savage pack and John Tollerman, an old farmer, committed to protecting the human citizens.