From New York Times bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear comes the enthralling continuation in their prehistoric mystery series.
Ancient evil stalks the Southwest when Dusty Stewart’s adoptive father and world-renowned anthropologist, Dr. Dale Robertson, is found brutally murdered in Chaco Canyon—buried upside down and mutilated, with a hole drilled in his skull. Bonded by grief, Dusty and Maureen Cole work to uncover links between Dale’s ritualistic death and a seven-hundred-year-old string of disturbing Anasazi murders.
While the FBI fumbles about, Dusty and Maureen’s search begins to uncover long-buried secrets of past love affairs, deceit, seduction, and betrayal that drove Dusty’s biological father to suicide. As they expose one sordid secret after another, Kwewur—the mythical Puebloan “Wolf Witch”—is one step ahead of them, watching from the shadows and drawing his next victim into his twisted lair of perverted Spirit Power.
In the ruins of a dying empire, War Chief Browser and the woman he loves—but dares not touch—face defeat. To win, he and Stone Ghost must hunt the perverted witch, Two Hearts, and his psychopathic daughter. But as Browser tries to save his beloved Katsinas People from extermination, he unknowingly engages in a cat-and-mouse game with Two Hearts. But who is hunting whom?
Can Dusty and Maureen finally unveil answers to the mysteries that have shrouded their past and put an end to an ancient reign of terror?
Venture into the depths of an unfamiliar past, where cryptic puzzles of history must be deciphered…or else surrender to the present’s relentless terrors.