"There are ghost towns in the world—places where the humans were annihilated in retaliation for the slaughter of the shape-shifting Others.
One of those places is Bennett, a town at the northern end of the Elder Hills—a town surrounded by the wild country. Now efforts are being made to resettle Bennett as a community where humans and Others live and work together. A young female police officer has been hired as the deputy to a Wolfgard sheriff. A deadly type of Other wants to run a human-style saloon. And a couple with four foster children—one of whom is a blood prophet—hope to find acceptance.
But as they reopen the stores and the professional offices and start to make lives for themselves, the town of Bennett attracts the attention of other humans looking for profit. And the arrival of the Blackstone Clan, outlaws and gamblers all, will uncover secrets…or bury them" (summary courtesy of Goodreads)
I used the Goodreads summary because I couldn't figure out a good way to talk about the plot without somehow including a lot of information from the series, in general. I think this is definitely a book where you need to have read the previous book in this series, as well as least one of the books in The Others series --- because otherwise, a lot of things might not make as much sense. Or, you'll spend a lot of time trying to figure something out that was covered in a previous story.
I enjoyed this book as much as the other previous books, although I found parts of it to be a little predictable (although not entirely, which was good). I like the world that Bishop has created, and that she has taken a series and done a bit of a spin-off, which allows her to keep using that world but concentrate on different characters (who may or may not connect to each other).
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