"In seven days, she will fall," say the crows. "As she falls, so do we all." Who falls? wonders M. The ominous, supernatural message starts M on a quest that could save more than one life. But what if the person in danger happens to be her nemesis? Along the way, M meets up with Gray, a Cree boy with his own hopes of saving a runaway Indigenous girl.

As they begin a wild journey through the city and into the bleak northern woods, M grasps for the true meaning behind the crows' messages and pushes deeper and deeper into worlds she doesn't know or understand, holding fast to a questionable dream that she might be a modern-day Joan of Arc. (From DCB)

Barbara Radecki is a Toronto-based actor and writer. She is also the author of 2017 YA novel The Darkhouse. She currently works as an creative writer instructor at University of Toronto.