Fireheart `s traitorous enemy Tigerclaw has been vanquished and exiled from ThunderClan-but Fireheart can `t shake the feeling that he `s lurking out there in the forest, waiting for the chance to strike. That `s not the only problem facing the young ThunderClan deputy in these blazing summer months, as he struggles to handle ominous omens, a disrespectful apprentice with a shocking secret, and a devastated Clan leader who is a shell of her former self.
Meanwhile the forest gets hotter and hotter...and everyone braces for the coming storm...