First was the madness...then the sanity. Reality is all in the perception of the beholder but what if the beholder is crazy? Aislin Welsh is a sheltered young woman with a secret, a voice inside her mind. It is a dark, black shadow named Bram. She's got control of it, or so she thinks, but an accident in a research lab gives her reason to question it all. Aislin finds herself within another world filled with dangerous beasts and nomadic people who fear two things: the mountain on which they survive, and a blood thirsty chief named Bram. Chief Bram pulls her into his life and into his tribe as Mother of the tribe. Insane with the sanity, Aislin is forced to adapt to the new life in front of her full of danger, murder, and war. Soon enough she is faced with a choice: does she trust the man she's known all her life or does she trust her newfound mind?