Young brash Darly can't overcome her anger at a father she never knew Viv her secretive mother can't get over the man himself What Darly doesn't know & what Viv refuses to tell her is that her father is not of human blood One of the elusive wanaghi the fey-like folk who live beneath the Dakotan hills he left Viv to return to his own kind before realizing that she would bear his child When the gift of a bone whistle brings Darly's father to her she finally discovers who he is She decides against her mother's advice to follow him to his land under the hills There she meets the rest of her family & a young man who steals her heart Even knowing the dangers Darly can't help but fall in love & into the intriques of the wanaghi