Accidentally causing the death of a purse snatcher with ties to the mob, tribal investigator and Colorado rancher Charlie Moon and his friend, Chief of Police Scott Parris, are targeted by the thief's vengeful family in a case that is complicated by FBI meddling and a rookie private investigator.

A lawman with a hardy appetite for life and an unshakable faith in the explicable, Southern Ute Acting Chief of Police Charlie Moon is not prepared to accept a purely supernatural explanation for the recent strange events of April 1. Nevertheless, something carried off Tommy Tonompicket and his unlikely drinking companion, research scientist William Pizinski, in the black chill of the Colorado night. And something ripped the head off a man outside...

Contacted by a frantic Wanda Naranjo to track down her missing sixteen-year-old, eight-months-pregnant daughter, Colorado rancher and part-time tribal investigator Charlie Moon races against time to save the girl.

After a college student is killed, Police Chief Scott Parris turns to an aging shaman, who had visions of the killing, to track down the person responsible before they can kill again. "The shocking death of a female physics student has shattered the peaceful community of Granite Creek, Colorado--and police chief Scott Parrish has a hunch he can't even begin to explain. He saw the killing ... in his dreams. Daisy Perika experienced the same visions....