After a surprise attack leaves many of her people dead, fifteen-year-old Walks Alone, an Apache girl wounded in the massacre, struggles to survive and rejoin the refugee band.

When Navajo detective Yazzie Goldman steps in to protect an old man from being harassed by a hood, he discovers that the old man is none other than architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright has found himself surrounded by bad people, including a Chicago gangster he's in debt to and an assistant who wants to steal Wright's plans for the Guggenheim Museum. Yazzie takes Wright into his home for protection, but he'll need to find allies if he's going to win...

A Navajo family welcomes a new baby into the family with love and ceremony, eagerly waiting for that special laugh. Includes brief description of birth customs in different cultures.

"When Markus Cottin begins pulling out some of the family mysteries, his father tells him he will find only "a chain of fools, each one worse than the one that came before." His search takes him to Colorado mining towns, to the Navajo reservation, and around the desert Four Corners region, and the tale he turns up is a shameful one of race politics and union troubles of the 1950s. When he finds his own family involved in bombings and the murder of...