Margaret Coelβs New York Times bestselling series continues as Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John OβMalley discover that a centuries-old mystery is tied to a modern-day crime on the Wind River Reservationβ¦
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In the midst of a blizzard, Myra and Eldon Little Shield found an abandoned baby on their doorstep and brought her inside. Five years later, no one has come back to claim the little girl now known as Mary Anne Little Shield. But now that sheβs old enough to start school, her foster parents fear social services will take herβa white childβaway from them.
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Determined to adopt Mary Anne, the Little Shields hire lawyer Clint Hopkins, who wants Vicky as cocounsel on the case. But before their meeting can take place, a black truck deliberately runs Hopkins down in the street.
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Enlisting Father John to help investigate who would kill to stop the childβs adoption, Vicky unravels a connection between the five-year-old girl and a missing alcoholic Arapaho wanted for robberyβonly to uncover one of the darkest secrets in Wind Riverβs historyβ¦