At the Dawn of the Age of the Katsinas. A woman runs away in search of a Spirit Helper and never returns. An ancient village is swept into a shattering crime beyond reason, beyond belief. An old man must learn to walk the dark labyrinth of a murderer's mind to find him before he can strike again. A young war chief must enter the mesmerizing word of the insane if he to save everything and everyone he loves. And, a scant moment ahead in geologic time, world-renowned Canadian physical anthropologist Dr. Maureen Coles finds herself excavating a mass grave in New Mexico filled with the brutalized bodies of women and children.