Alix Thorssen owns an art gallery, is on call as an expert for the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies and lives in Wyoming. It's a nice life until her brother-in-law is arrested for murder on the Salish reservation in Montana. Professor Wade Fraser had a reputation as a violent man - there've been previous assault charges against him - and he was also known as having little patience with people who exploited the Native Americans. He was known to have argued with Shiloh Merkin, the woman found with her throat cut. Called her and her friends some vile names. The knife that caused the wound was Fraser's. Open and shut. Surrounded by chanting New Age Indian wannabes, traditional Salish, and a man whose past history and recent actions make it clear that he might be capable of murder, Alex begins looking into the events surrounding the death of Shiloh. In the course of the investigation she uncovers more than she bargained for, including a legendary artifact that just may be worth killing for...