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 meets a rogue shaman who warns her: someone is trapping souls, spreading sickness, and threatening to erase their people forever. To stop it, she must find the White Eagle — the medicine that could save them all.
Her journey takes her through frontier towns, haunted forests, and a world unraveling under disease and betrayal. The truth behind the sickness leads back to the mother who cast her out.
Now Neshekai must choose — bring the medicine home, or become the thing hunting her.
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.
