Rafi was meant to be the greatest hunter his tribe had ever produced. Then the bear took his leg. A decade after his Byrval left him with a permanent limp and a permanent wound to his identity, Rafi struggles to keep pace with the tribe he was born to lead. When the Veilmoot brings an announcement that strips away the last thing he believes defines him, Rafi finds himself at the southern settlement - far from his mountain, far from his people, far from everything he understands about who he is. What follows is not the story he expected. Surrounded by the old, the wounded, and the lost, Rafi must learn to hunt in a world that doesn't reward speed. As the winters pass he discovers that the knowledge he has carried since boyhood - the forest floor, the bent branch, the bitter berry - is worth more than he ever knew. That what looks like exile can be something else entirely.

And that the man who taught him everything may not have given up on him after all. Parentage is the second part of the Rafi trilogy, set in the world of Norrheim - a vast northern land of mountains, wolves, and the Vadori people, who measure a life not in years but in scars.