My week of surviving in the danger zone is over, and I have not come back empty-handed; my pack now includes two wind lynxes, coveted even by masters from the capital.

But upon returning to my home village, I find the elder has set a trap for me. He's pulling out the big guns, threatening to imprison my mother, and take my pets for next to nothing.

The old conniver thinks he's dealing with a scared little kid, but he is fatally mistaken. It's time for a reckoning. I’m not the sick boy he thinks I am—I'm an experienced gamekeeper and I have the Beast Code in me. It's time to learn the full truth about my father's death, and expose to everyone who Yefim really is.