It is never easy growing up as a shape-shifter, learning to control the wild Talent for changing into any shape at all—a winged dragon, a pillar of stone, another human being, a creature from a nightmare. But for Mavin Manyshaped—one of only two shape-shifters in her tribe, and recklessly headstrong by nature—coming of age is both exhilarating and terrifying. Little does she know she is destined to become the most notorious shape-shifter in all the lands of the True Game.