Exhausted architect Sofia Haloway plummets through an open street drain into a primitive realm ruled by shapeshifting animal clans. Stranded among the Sunset Tribe, she faces forced tribal marriages and rival courtship until her revolutionary construction expertise and engineering knowledge prove vital to the community's survival.
As Sofia reinforces fragile timber palisades and designs formidable defensive ramparts, she navigates complex mating alliances with an elite lion hunter, a cunning fox, and an enigmatic healer. When neighboring predator tribes launch a brutal siege fueled by internal treason, Sofia must defend her new homeland using civil engineering.
