Set in Nebraska, 10 years after the Wounded Knee massacre. A family works to preserve their cattle ranch and so,Vee two murder. The main characters are an Anglo woman and a Native American India woman, which gives the book the opportunity to explore new perspectives, something the author is not always successful with. Overall, I liked the story and the writing. The plot was reasonably well constructed, but the characters sometimes seemed uneven, inconsistent. For example, Graver seemed like a loser at first, then a hero by the end of the book’s first quarter. Perhaps that’s her point: life in the West was harsh.