Jake Lucknow is living with cancer in the strangely altered land surrounding the Gem Lakes, but can he survive his latest challenge--a mutant pack of hungry wolves? Beautiful as it is rugged and unforgiving, the strangely altered land in the Gem Lakes Range offers Jake Lucknow life and adventure. Now, with his cancer in remission, he faces a new threat from the forest: a pack of wolves, unnaturally changed. They are terrifying in a way the world has never seen. When tragedy brings a new and unexpected ally, Jake must find a way to stop the mutant wolves before their voracious appetites destroy everything in their paths.