Ruby Eagle, known to her close friends as Ruby Flare, was an international hero, a diminutive but fierce hummingbird of the Atlantean War Eagle Clan. Due to injury she was forced to retire leaving a power vacuum amongst the clans of Atlantis. Ruby hopes her daughter, Anna, will take up the leadership of the Atlantean council of five hundred families.

When Anna is challenged to a duel to decide her fate Ruby must struggle to help her daughter survive a fight to the death.

A tale of power and hope that will determine the future of a legendary and ancient kingdom.