There are three bears, a girl with honey gold blonde hair, and a secret lair, but this story is far from the children's fairytale our parents used to read to us when we were kids. At seventeen years old, Hannah Adler has already lost her mother to a brutal murder, and her father to a job that keeps him away more often than not. It couldn't get any worse for this depressed teen, except it does when she is abruptly uprooted from the city and only home she's ever known and deposited in the gold rich mountains of Hinsdale Colorado. Never one to make friends easily, the only thing that keeps Hannah grounded is her star quality cross country talent. While running through the woods behind the cabin, that is now her home, gives her solace, Hannah quickly discovers that this seemingly enchanted forest is hiding something that no one is willing to talk about. Being eaten by one of the many mutant wolves, that keep escaping through the underground tunnels of the Golden Wonder mine, is the least of her worries. When Hannah stumbles upon a hidden cave deep in the woods, the bear that saves her life only adds more mystery to the sable eyed boy she's come to know as Jake. But there is something that Jake isn't telling her, and Hannah is determined to find out what. What she uncovers has not only been a secret for over a millennia, but a truth that forces the fate of an endangered human race into a young Hannah's hands. Unknowingly born of a strange primal lineage, she finds herself fighting to save the only family she has left, the love that she'd never expected, and ultimately the entire world. What begins as a simple curiosity will lead her into a legacy that no one will soon forget.