Six-year-old Nessie has led a life so sheltered that her first day of high school is cause for giddiness, her rapid aging so far having kept her confined to her family circle. But just when she's starting to worry that her strangeness will keep her cloistered up forever, she witnesses a tragic event and starts to accumulate life experience fast. The event forces Leah to come home from a stint as a ranger up in the Yukon, and she and Nessie click as freaks who wish they could be more normal. Their mutual understanding quickly starts evolving into something more, but the problem is that each considers Jake to be her best and oldest friend. Nessie knows that Jake is powerfully attached to her, though she doesn't know just how powerfully, and neither she nor Leah knows how to keep him from getting badly hurt. 

"An elder once told me never to question one's journey until you've walked a mile in their shoes. I was only fourteen years old then. Who knew that the love of my life would betray me- coldheartedly? Now, I am judged...and ridiculed for the feelings I hold about my past. My journey hasn't been easy and nor had I expected it to be, but I can't refrain from asking the typical question..."Why me?" Yes, they're getting married! Yes, I agreed to be in their dumb ass wedding! Do I have to like it? Hell No!"

Come with me on a journey back to the Quileute Reservation and meet Miss Leah Clearwater, the only female shape-shifter. Leah has snagged a job at the Seattle Times just to get a break from the reservation. She has found herself dreaming about her high school sweetheart, Sam Uley. However, Sam and Emily, her second cousin, are in the final planning stages of their wedding; a wedding that, although she wants no part of, she must participate in to support her cousin. How will Leah cope? Whom will she turn to for solace? What does the future hold for Leah?