Through Wolf's Eyes

Years ago Prince Barden disobeyed his father's orders and led a colonizing expedition beyond the boundaries of Hawk Haven, across the mountains and into the wilderness beyond. That was the last anyone heard of the prince and his followers. Now there's a problem: one of Barden's children, if found alive, could still inherit the throne. Earl Kestrel, an ambitious noble, has mounted an expedition to find out what became of the colonists - and, perhaps, persuade some of them to come back.
They don't find Barden's colony. Young Firekeeper, a strange, feral young lady, finds them. She's just the right age to be one of Barden's children, and her sole possessions - aside from the crudely prepared furs she wears - are some flint stones for striking fire and Prince Barden's own knife.
Firekeeper only vaguely remembers a time when she didn't live with her "family," a pack of royal wolves. They're bigger, stronger, and smarter than normal wolves, and speak a language that Firekeeper has also learned as she's grown up with them. Now the wolves who lead her pack tell her they're sending her back to live among the humans. They promised this to her mother long ago, and now they must honor their promise - though if Firekeeper finds she doesn't care for the humans, they add, she can always just come home and be a wolf again. But for now she has to give it a try.
Thus it is that one fine morning Firekeeper walks into Earl Kestrel's encampment. She's wary. They're astonished. They'd be even more astonished if they knew her beloved best friend, the wolf called Blind Seer, sits watching, just outside the clearing. He's planning to come along with Firekeeper, for the adventure and to keep her company. The men of the expedition decide to call her Lady Blysse, after Barden's young daughter, and set out on the long journey back to Hawk Haven.
Firekeeper and Blind Seer will have much to contemplate in the months to come. The process of learning to behave like a human will turn out to be more complicated than she'd ever imagined. Firekeeper/Blysse will find herself entangled in intrigues, plots both foul and fair, as the long-smoldering question of royal succession finally bursts into flame. And yet, while human ways may be stranger than anything found in the forest, their infighting is nothing Firekeeper hasn't seen before.