When Monday Brown disappears & circumstances point to murder, few people are surprised or think it undeserved. His business practices were undesirable & his profession - a trader in Indian artifacts who wouldn't think twice about desecrating a grave - was an insult to & an assault on, Native Americans. Police arrest a hot-blooded Gulf War veteran with a big mouth & a propensity for trouble named Matthew Wolf, a Crow Indian. Wolf's family comes to private investigator Phoebe Siegel for help. But she turns them down - until the body of a young Indian man shows up virtually in her backyard. Phoebe begins an investigation that takes her from the comfort & security of her world & onto the Crow reservation where the color of her skin makes her the enemy