The story begins by telling about two sisters and their family, all living in a small house in a more isolated part of the forest in the Aftermoon Kingdom, the place is full of legends about hideous creatures that roam the lands since ancient times, Cateline and the middle sister of the Forth family, she fervently believed in these legends, the ancients told that the Kingdom and the rest of the world had suffered a curse that had left all infertile women, and so the current generation could not reproduce.
Many did not believe when it all began , but when all of the kingdom saw with their own eyes the women failing to generate more life, they were completely terrified.
One night after a party in the village, Cateline a young virgin peasant comes across a strange man who completely bewitched her, not understanding why that intense feeling of attraction the young woman just surrenders, leaving something to happen unexpectedly next.
Even with the infertility curse cast on the world, Cateline will become pregnant with this mysterious man, and she will only find out by noticing strange changes in her body.
In the midst of this plague, only the young peasant and her family will be able to be freed from this curse... what Cateline did not imagine, was that in her womb a non-human child grew up, but a cub of a werewolf, the woman’s life will be turned upside down and everything she knows will change.
Cateline lives on a farm far from the village with his mother Milenna and her two brothers, his father Frederico Estevan Forth had died in a war that had happened long ago, all that remained for his wife and children was the farm, There they work in a manual way most of the time, it was the only way to earn money inside the forest, they plant and sell food, charcoals, fish, meat, skins and everything they could get from the place.
Cateline is the middle daughter of the family, the young has an older sister named Lucinda, a young girl eager to get married, she spends most of the day imagining a prince charming rescuing him from that terrible nightmare that was living and working on the farm, the woman could not stand the land and the field.
The younger brother is called Martin, is a very curious child and loves to discover new things, this makes him always get into trouble when they go to the nearby village to sell some of his goods.
Cateline was always a serious girl, avoided leaving much of her parents' land, but now after grown up her mother pressured her to be more like her sister, more vain and delicate.
Cateline simply hates it, all she wants is to grow up and buy a piece of land nearby so she can live the rest of her life as she has always lived, she does not have as many ambitions as her sister Lucinda, nor does she want to marry someone rich like her, It doesn’t even cross your mind.
The sons of the Lord responsible for the lands where Cateline’s family lives, are returning from the war, they had fought against the monsters of the North, there were no such beasts in the kingdom of Aftermoon, so all that was heard were rumors about what these beasts looked like, said they were huge beings, looked like wolves, but walked like humans, it was scary just to hear the stories, they fought for years, many neighboring countries and kingdoms fought by their side, pressing the lords and kings of the Aftermoon kingdom, the war was increasingly aggressive, There were few men left, all that remained were old, dying and some soldiers who had already returned to their broken and helpless families.
As the years passed, the birth rate decreased, making in the present time the births of babies were rare, less were born and rarer were such events, many women did not become pregnant, or when such a miracle happened they lost their children just before they were born, it made everyone believe it was a divine punishment for so many killings and wars, punishing humans with a world without a future.
Many wealthy men made contracts with younger girls, poor or not, in an attempt to have an heir and not lose their fortunes to the crown, but even so, there were few cases of babies and worsened increasingly.
With the return of the Lord’s children, the whole village had planned to hold a feast to commemorate the brief victory, the children of the Lord there were treated only as pawns in this blood-stained war of innocents, men were obliged to participate in the follies of their father, the old man always wanted to conquer more territories, and for that, he killed and ended his small population that was smaller every day.
Many people were losing hope and leaving aside the family plans, but others became fanatically and sick with the idea of no more to fight for, the world was at war, but no one really knew why, all they could do was survive and pray that one day it would all go away.
