...or, at least, it was.

Now that an evil warlord, a coyote named Svazz Eagleclaw, is on the move, no place is safe from his cataclysmic claws. Svazz has already pillaged and ruined all the land and homes to the south of Redwall, including a particularly peaceful family of foxes. He killed the two older foxes and left their seventeen-year-old daughter, Ironfire, for dead. However, Ironfire recovered and then set out on a quest for vengeance.

She plans to join Svazz's horde and spy for the endangered Abbey. If a chance were to ever present itself, she would, without hesitation, kill the evil creature.