Sun Catcher is riding Sunshine when she comes across Stubborn Echo, a boy from her tribe who is doing something forbidden – riding Ghost, his father’s wind-drinker. Across the meadow from them, a grizzly bear cub emerges from the trees, it’s massive, protective mother right behind it. Sun Catcher and Echo escape on their wind-drinkers through the forest, Echo barely clinging to Ghost’s back. Suddenly, the ground gives way. Echo and Ghost plummet into a pit! Sun Catcher sets out to rescue Echo and Ghost, but she’s forgetting one thing: Echo detests her. At the first opportunity, will he abandon her and the wind-drinkers in the darkness?

When Lost River’s tribe is attacked by a strange creature that seems half man and half beast, she is terrified believing it to be the mythical Sun God. A deadly fire starts and soon Lost River is separated from her tribe. Confused and alone, she sees movement in the smoke. Maybe it’s someone from her tribe. Desperate, she follows – and finds herself alone with the beast half of the Sun God! But the beast seems afraid too. Maybe it’s not a god at all, but an animal, an animal as frightened as she is. An animal who is also running for its life.