Roddy Williams must hide from the gangsters who have put a contract on his life.  His grandfather, a retired Chicago homicide detective sends him to live with a friend and onetime partner who owns a trading post near the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. 

Roddy becomes involved in the lives, history, and legends of three different cultures.  Can he survive the intercultural conflicts plus the ancient curse that surround his new environment and still keep secret his hiding place?