A lesser devil works the Rochester Public Market … and it is here that a desperate man finds himself drawn to make a bargain that only she can grant.

It was to be a simple mission for Mittemeyer and his team of veterinarians: venture into the Exclusion Zone to humanely control the growing population of dogs, long abandoned after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

But a discovery changes the course of the expedition and Mittemeyer’s team soon realizes there is much more at stake for the pack–and themselves–than they thought possible.