Ambessa, being made a werewolf by Kindred in an effort to save her life, as the physical aspect of the wolf hides that she is a monster from her children. But every full moon, she loses more of herself. However, Mel follows her mother to see where she goes every month, and sees the monster her mother really is.

Mel too becomes ensnared by the dark ancestral secret that they've so desperately tried to conceal when a hunter comes to town and Ambessa fights her instincts to kill her daughter and keep the truth of her concealed.