The planets Rutan and Senali are on the brink of war due to a traditional exchange of firstborn children at the age of seven, and Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi are in a race to stop the impending bloodshed.

Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.

"Frostpaw was told to trust no cat, but a brutal attack has left her gravely injured, and she'll need to depend on someone. When help arrives in the form of a young warrior, she convinces him to protect her as she follows StarClan's cryptic directions toward the roots of RiverClan, where Riverstar has promised she'll find the answers she's been so desperately seeking. Back at the lake, the tension between ShadowClan and its neighbors might be easing,...

"In a leaderless RiverClan, medicine cat apprentice Frostpaw is desperate to guide her Clanmates down the right path--while Tigerstar watches their every move. Within ShadowClan and ThunderClan, the changes to the warrior code stretch tempers to the tipping point, where one wrong move could prove that peace among the Clans can never last for long."--