Thurlo, Aim?e

Sister Agatha, an extern nun in the cloistered order at the Our Lady of Hope Monastery, serves as the sisters' link to the outside world, running errands and helping those who need it, and when an eight-year-old girl who has the power to perform miracles disappears, Sister Agatha is asked to find the girl and protect her from those who want to exploit her gift.

Ella Clah, a special investigator with the Navajo Police, finds herself at a loss for clues when a rash of murders accompanies the proposal by a group of businessmen to open a uranium mine and nuclear power plant on the Navajo Reservation.

Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah's life is full of change as she adjusts to her mother's desires to resume the personal and political life she led before having children.

Crystal Manyfeathers, a Navajo girl with misgivings about her people's traditions, searches for the thief of the rug she was weaving for her upcoming womanhood ceremony and wonders if her best friend, Henry, is right in his suspicions that she is being punished for not paying tribute to the deity the Spider Woman.