Sacrificed by his father, a disfigured infant plunges down a snowymountain. A trapper rescues the boy who grows to young manhood, accompaniedby the wolf that nurtured him and a dark anomaly--a fragment of that bondborn to twins--the SHADOW OF THE SOUL. Facing ridicule and humiliation from the town folks, Matthew perseveres toreunite his family. Then disaster strikes. Will Matthew risk his life to savethe man who abandoned him?