Jeffrey Reese, a writer of the outdoors, is sent by his magazine to report on wolves desperately trying to survive in the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana and Idaho only to find the wolves' greatest struggle is with man's hatred. Reese's contact with wolves draws him physically and emotionally into the mystique of creatures with human-like emotions. Happenstance brings Reese into the lives of Lakota, an immensely intelligent beta wolf, Jacy Cayuse, a Nez Perce youth infatuated with wolves, and Elizabeth Dalton, the alluring daughter of a prominent rancher and devout hater of wolves. Reese,...