Catlin is haunted by a ghost, a Tash, from her past.
Tully and Molly went to an Island where Fergus went as a lad because the tribe on the Island wants to join forces with them. Conor, Fergus, and Catlin went there after them, when they didn't come back. But there are traps, designed to kill, all over the island.
Conor buys his family's bones and tries to bury them in his father's village, but the village is loyal to another. Conor and Fergus try to make it through the night.
Conor, Fergus, Molly, and Catlin go to the town where Molly and her mother live. Unfortunately, Molly's mother, Agrona, is married. The man she is married to has some secrets.
Queen Diana makes a cage to put Conor in, but who will end up in it?
Conor and Fergus are on their way to a meeting Queen Diana has called to bring all the tribes together. On their way the meet a man in a hole, they jump down there to get him out, but he leaves them in there. He says to get out they must "Kiss the clay," when they do they get out of the hole covered with mud. And there is a woman covered in mud. She is not what she seems.