When the wilderwolf hunting Freddy is exposed as Cherry, and sentenced to be defanged for her crimes, Freddy tries to prove that she can be reformed. Scarlet meets two other young wolfhunters who take a different approach.

Alpha One, leader of the wilderwolves, leads the Night Patrol straight into a werewolf-hunter trap. Freddy is expelled from Howlington after the council blames him - and his friendship with Scarlet - for the disaster.