One day, when Juneau returns from hunting, she discovers her clan has vanished without a trace. Although she has been told all of her life to never go beyond the boundaries her elders have set for the protection and survival of the clan she leaves her village to find them. And what she finds rocks her belief system to her core.

Every November on the island of Thisby, those brave enough race in The Scorpio Races. But they aren’t racing on the type of horse you or I are familiar with. They race on capaill uisce, water horses that won’t hesitate to attack each other or eat human flesh.