sweetharbor was indeed a gentle chapter in her life. heda and caracal ended up with eight children and the support of others. sleepless nights and other strain took a toll on her mate, and heda left the island only meaning to be gone for a time. but while she was away, caracal died, and it seemed judah followed.

the family slowly fell apart, heda losing one child after another to different events as she desperately tried to shepherd them together, to keep them inland. she lost the majority of her faith despite the fact that she did not want the same for her children. they ended up in the sunspire, and a new, rough chapter opened for her. the pages of this one end now with druid having returned to the teekon wilds to begin rivenwood anew, and the sisters finding one another.

glaukos was the man chosen by druid to sire her children. they lived together in a parenting arrangement. heda, currently living in sleepy fox hollow while the sapphique healer etienne worked on her injured daughter ava, met anselm, son of mahler. neither of them had any knowledge of the fact that heda had once seen the old gargoyle as a father figure. nor did they have awareness of the fact that through wylla, they were related.

anselm hated that heda was in the hollow with her girls, but when nature came over the sweetharbor wolf, it was he who answered. heda, horrified by the fact she had slept with someone during her mourning as a widow, tried to persuade anselm to marry her. he refused, leaving her deeply ashamed. druid's reappearance into the wilds was a relief for heda, who took ava and dinah straight back to rivenwood.

there, druid offered glaukos as a potential donor, and heda accepted, knowing it would be best if glaukos believed all the pups in the bypass were his own. anselm, etienne, and fiona soon joined the bypass wolves from the hollow, complicating things drastically for heda.

anselm and she found some equilibrium, but he continued to reject any bid for more commitment, claiming the boys gideon and ezra but not any sort of bond with heda. she sank into a deeper shame.

tense events clashed. glaukos was driven out and did not return save for one time. heda allied with her sister in this despite not being involved in their breaking. rivenwood pitched, steadying again, and then truly dipped into despair when druid left. she had been attacked by a wolf possibly carrying rabies, and decided to quarantine in a nearby territory. but she never came home.

ava, ana, and dinah had all left rivenwood by now. john, a man formerly of sweetharbor, searched for her sons on the shore, gone many months. etienne departed to help his sister with her new children. heda helms alone the shivering ship of rivenwood, mother once more to many.

until amadeo was noticed by heda, she had no hope. now that he has shown himself not only as a man of god, but a confident and zealous individual with a deep interest in her, heda surrenders once more to what she believes the workings of divinity, accepting him as betrothed.