It is six years since the survivors from Petaluma established a haven in the Russian River Valley thirty miles to the north. During a hunt in the low mountain wilderness of the Redwood Empire, Raven, and Emmie, with Satan, encounter Sherri, a young woman carrying an infant and trying to flee with her four-year-old daughter from a pair of assassins. She is already pierced by two arrows, with more coming. In fending off the archers plus kryls on a capture...