Hidden in the depths of an isolated forest since the age of eight, Lena grows up believing survival means staying unseen. After a devastating plague wipes out most of the world's women, desperate settlements become increasingly violent in their search for survivors. Taught by fear, instinct, and the unforgiving wilderness itself, Lena spends fourteen years alone among the pines-hunting, hiding, and learning the language of the forest better than the language of people.
Everything changes when she is discovered.