When Runningnose first asked to become Yellowfang’s apprentice, he could never have anticipated all of the suffering he would endure because of his decision to become a medicine cat. After Yellowfang was exiled for supposedly killing her mother’s young kits, Runningnose was forced to watch an endless stream of kits die of battle wounds they should never have earned and serve a leader he could never challenge because it would leave his Clanmates without a healer. He must have hoped his Clan’s troubles were over when Brokenstar was finally driven out. But he would soon come to learn that Brokenstar’s reign had only been the beginning. that there was more suffering to come, more terrible secrets to keep, and a terrible price to pay for his Clan’s bright new dawn.