Author of Legend of the Dead, Coyote Returns, The Shadow Catcher, The Dark Canyon, The Mutes, and The Owl and the Raven
San Juan Puebloโthe dead of winter. Police Chief Joseph Aquino has a suspicious drowningโthe Director of the Pueblo Art Council. A gallery owner in Santa Fe is implicated . . . as is a local artist. As he digs deeper, Aquino faces mounting opposition from the new Pueblo Sheriff and the Tribal Council. Peeling back the layers of a 300-year-old legend, the police chiefโs authority is challenged, his family threatened.
In San Phillipe County, children are tormented by a shadow presence. A student is abducted. At a snowbound lodge, a shootout leaves a man dead. Complications mount as Sheriff Cliff Lansing attempts to unravel one clue after another. Tina Moralesโ grandmother can only provide guidance from a distance . . . but she knows full well the Evil that Lansing and Morales now face.
On the snowy banks of the Rio Grande, a haunting siren sings her melancholy lullaby. Lives are sacrificed. Lives are saved. All the while, The Weeping Woman beckons the living to join her beneath the waters.