Renee "Cash" Blackbear came up through the system. She and her sister and brother were taken away from their mother after she crashed her car driving drunk. Cash went through a lot of foster homes and knows the routine. The one bright spot in her life was Sheriff Wheaton, who found her in the crashed car and has remained a constant in her life. She even works for the sheriff's department occasionally where her intuition has paid dividends in solving cases. Cash finds a body in an empty farmhouse after finishing a day of plowing fields. She has finds a terrified little girl who witnessed the murder. Cash does not want Shawnee disappearing into the system as she did. When the social worker places Shawnee with a widow of the murdered man, Cash gets more and more suspicious. Jonesy, the Native American woman teaching her how to use her intuition, is circumspect as to how Cash's journey will move forward, but Jonesy assures Cash that Shawnee's mother will come forward in time. Cash knows she must protect Shawnee at all costs. Set in the last 70s, this is an interesting look at life at the time Native American rights are becoming an issue. An interesting read.