When she loses her husband, Alexis Ayze has to find a way to take care of her 4-year-old son, Jack. Her best option is her husband’s family in Arizona. On her way to her in-laws’ home on the reservation, Lexie loses her way in a storm. The car ends up in a ravine and they are trapped by a flash flood. 

Michael Ayze becomes concerned because his brother’s widow and his nephew are in unfamiliar territory and this storm isn’t quite normal. Something is off about it. He spots Lexie’s car in a flooded ravine and comes to the rescue. He has to remind himself that he is just her savior and nothing else. Of course that may not work for long. There is an attraction that just won’t go away. And it didn’t help when his mother suggested they keep with the old tradition and Michael should marry Lexie.

Michael is part of a group of medicine men, known as the Brotherhood, who are fighting a battle for their people. The Skinwalkers are Navajo men who have taken up Navajo witchcraft to become the power of the reservation. The evil skinwalkers trying to take over and the Brotherhood trying to stop it are all searching for a map that will give them the advantage.

There is the matter of Lexie’s talent for communicating with ghosts. Michael has to come to terms with this bit of information. Ghosts are evil so Lexie’s ability to see them is not a good thing in his belief system. But it appears that Lexie is to be the Message Bearer for the Brotherhood whether they like it or not.

Now all Michael has to do is keep Lexie alive.