After weeks of tracking, the Wolfrider rescue party finds Cutter in the clutches of an eerie new tribe of elves. But are they too late to save their chief from plunging over the edge of madness? Two-Edge and Ekuar rekindle their strange friendship-to ally against Rayek. How will this shocking turnabout affect the advancing human war fleet and the shape-changed Wavedancers who follow in its wake?