Twelve years after Mahingan was wounded battling for his life against the Haudenosaunee warrior known as ÞO:nenhste Erhar (Corn Dog), we rejoin his family and learn what fate held for him. Now, his children, Anokßi and Pangßi Mahingan, along with their twin cousins Makwa and Wßabek, are grown and have adult responsibilities. Still living with their Algonquin family, they have become a formidable fighting unit with the addition of three MÔikmaq warriors, ÔEs, JiltÔeg, and the fierce EluÔewiet GÔaqaquj. However, there is danger in the land of the setting sun, and nothing is more dangerous than what the family is going to encounter from the fierce enemy of their new Anishinaabe allies: the LakhÔota.