When an Alliance team disappears in the Himalayas, Rinaker sends Nick and Sh'lainn to investigate without informing them that the top Alliance echelon had cut a deal with the lycanthropes. In exchange for the Alliance tracking down the Yeti, former slaves of the lycanthropes, Ruk guarantees that the werewolves and their Yeti slaves will leave the planet forever. But the Yeti are guarding a secret weapon stored in a mountain cache, and the lycanthrope will do anything to get it back.