In 1899, when an evil threatens all the humans and animals of the Blue Ridge Mountains, twelve-year-old Serafina, rat catcher for the Biltmore estate and the daughter of a shapeshifting mountain lion, must search deep inside herself and embrace the destiny that awaits her., A follow-up to Serafina and the Black Cloak finds Serafina studying the ways of the catamount while struggling to find a place for herself in two disparate cultures before a series of mysterious animal attacks test her role as the Biltmore Estate's protector. 100,000 first printing.