Bestselling author Kathryn Lasky"s Wolves of the Beyond, the stunning new spinoff from the legendary Guardians of Ga"hoole, is now in paperback! A wolf mother has given birth, but the warm bundle snuffling next to her brings only anguish. The pup, otherwise healthy, has a twisted paw, and the mother knows what the harsh code of the pack demands. Her pup will be taken from her and abandoned on a desolate hill. The pack cannot have weakness - the wolf mother knows that her pup is condemned to die. But alone in the wilderness, the pup, Faolan, does not perish. This his story - a story of survival, of courage, and of love triumphant. This is Faolan"s story, the wolf pup who rose up to change forevever the Wolves of the Beyond.