High on a treacherous canyon wall, a man from the pueblo clings to a ledge. Furiously working to rescue him, Ranger Jack Chastain is nearly killed. Now he wants an explanation and the man refuses to talk. Jack learns the secret revolves around a death sixteen years before, and a lot more is now at stake. While looking for answers, ghosts from Jack's past threaten his new life in New Mexico, forcing him to choose sides between a man who can save a collapsing coalition or a Native American with something to hide.

J.M. Mitchell knows the mysteries and conflicts found in our favorite places, the national parks. He was Chief of the Biology Division for the National Park Service, after working in Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and Zion National Parks, and Washington, D.C.