Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life. La tribu de Karana ha sido brutalmente atacada por unos cazadores de nutrias. La muerte de muchos de ellos obliga al jefe del clan a tomar la decisión de abandonar la isla. Karana tambien quiere...

Eighteen-year-old Bitterblue, queen of Monsea, realizes her heavy responsibility and the futility of relying on advisors who surround her with lies as she tries to help her people to heal from the thirty-five-year spell cast by her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities.