Roland Dieszine tells this story to his newly assembled second ka-tet—Suzanne, Eddie, Jake, and Yush—and they learn what happened shortly after Roland’s mother was killed.
A young shooter goes to investigate the murders of peasants in a remote province—murders that frightened people are all accusing a mysterious werewolf of.
And accompanying him is one of the members of Roland’s first ka-tet, Jamie DeCarri, about whom previously very little was known…