A novel of the American West narrates the story of a dying man's attempts to make peace with his daughter, their struggle to rescue his granddaughter from renegades and slave traders, and his lifelong search for inner peace.

Pearl Eddy, a young, blind, Quaker widow in a small 1890s Kansas town, who is struggling to care for her four sons and make ends meet, infuriates her narrow-minded neighbors when she takes in a poor Japanese family who has lost their land to taxes and an African-American thief who is fleeing a mob.

Maggie is a young plainswoman raising her two daughters in the desolate wilderness of New Mexico. When daughter Lily is kidnapped by a dark-hooded phantom with shape-shifting powers, Maggie's long-estranged father offers to help find her. Though stunned by his return, Maggie knows she must swallow both hurt and pride if she is ever to see Lily again. Unaware of the frightening events that lurk in the distance, father and daughter set out to track...