A young kit born from the most forbidden of forbidden relationships. His horrible disfigurements disgust his mother, and she gives him up. Adopted into a clan who hates him for everything he is, and he ends up being the one thing that could save his adopted clan from the brink of collapse. All he needs to do is complete eight trials. But Hopewish smells something fishy. Why is only one cat visiting him? Why were his successful trials ending horrifically? And, most importantly, why were his dreams being haunted by dark forests?