In *The Cloven: Book Three*, our hero, Tuck, the most successful Cloven ever created, is discovered frozen solid in a mountain river. Reanimated by the medicinal mushrooms of The Healer, a legendary member of the Feral Herd of Cloven, Tuck easily integrates with his half-brothers and sisters with the help of Willie, a human “stray” who lives with the Herd.

Tuck finds himself on the verge of taking over the Herd and leading them out of the shadows of the mountain mines and into daylight, until he sees a *People* magazine cover in a mini mart with a photo of a very pregnant Stella Goff, and a headline: “But Who’s the Daddy?” Tuck knows all too well who’s the daddy, and he now must leave his Feral friends to track down the daughter of the richest man in the world…