A Spanish schooner anchors off a pristine Northwest Coast shoreline. Totem poles line the beach. War canoes rise and fall in the tide. There, a chieftainess gives birth — and throws her baby from a cliff.
That child is Neshekai.
Saved by the Wild Woman of the Woods, Neshekai grows up on the fringe of her world: no clan, no crest, no place to belong. Armed with a Soul Catcher — an ancient shamanic relic used to find lost souls and bring them home — she carries a power she barely understands.
When a ceremony goes wrong and a chief's son dies, Neshekai is blamed and cast out. On the run, she encounters Zugwa — a shaman, the last keeper of the old ways, half-mad and magnificent, who has watched everything his people know disappear and is desperate for someone to carry it forward. He warns her: someone is trapping souls, spreading sickness, threatening to erase their world forever. To stop it, she must find the White Eagle — the medicine that could save them all.
She races through vast open ocean and ancient inlets, haunted forests and smallpox-ravaged villages, lawless trading posts thick with whiskey runners and fortune seekers from every corner of the world — only to discover the one spreading the sickness, the one hunting her, is the most powerful chieftainess on the coast.
Her mother.
Now Neshekai must choose — stop her mother and lose the only love she has ever longed for, or inherit the darkness that has hunted her since birth.
In the tonal space of The Revenant and Killers of the Flower Moon, Wild Woman of the Woods is a mythic historical epic from the 19th-century Northwest Coast.
