"Another great storyteller is emerging."-Tony Hillerman

Award-winning authorMardi Oakley Medawar

In 1866 the Kiowas return to their traditional winter camp at Palo Duro Canyon for the first time in two years. But when a powerful healer winds up missing and two horses are found killed, the camp is convinced it is the work of a shapeshifter...While the camp searches for the witch among them, Tay-bodal begins his own investigation. Anxious to find his missing friend and sure that there is no supernatural cause behind these events, Tay-bodal must uncover the truth before fear destroys the bonds that unite the Kiowa Band....

"Medawar really captives the personalitiesof the individuals in her story, as wellas the culture itself, with understanding andlow-key Indian humor. She does for the Kiowa culturewhat Tony Hillerman has done for the Navaho."-Don Coldsmith, author of Tallgrass and the Spanish Bit saga

"Medawar, a Cherokee, reveals legendaryNative Americans as believable peopleand offers her readers a comprehensive lookat historical Kiowa life and values."-Publishers Weekly