Red explores her adolescence, her responsibilities, her desires, and her destiny in this novel. Red lives with Granny in a cottage in the village, where boarding up the house and hiding during Wolfstime is necessary to survival. She has her own internal battle between her wild side and her strict, overprotective upbringing. Plagued by nightmares she doesn't understand and a temper she can't control, Red struggles to save Granny's troubled bakery business and to nurture her budding romance with Peter, even as the betrayal of her classmates awakens the wolf within.