The companion to Clovermead and Chandlefort In the battle of good versus evil, will the heart or the head win? The battle against the evil Lord Ursus continues as shapeshifting heroine, Clovermead Wickward, now fifteen years old, must act as emissary for her mother, Lady Cindertallow, and convince other lands to join forces with Chandlefort. But the real war that Clovermead must wage is between duty and love. Everything that she holds dear is put on the line, and each of her decisions will affect the battle at large. In the end, Clovermead must rely on her sacred gifts, the ability to shift into bear form and to speak the bear language, to have even the slightest chance of victory.