Owl, a young indian warrior, must learn honor from the ancient medicine man. Through his adventures he encounters he will travel savage lands, find romance, captivity and engage in a deadly rival.

Red Feather, the half-French brave who has traded with the Spanish for many summers, cannot read the signs of change when he comes to Santa Fe on a trading trip. His blindness to the conflict lands him behind bars in the tense days prior to the Pueblo uprising.

To limit the influence of the French along the Mississippi River, the Spanish send out an expedition to capture Indians allied with the French. The result is a massacre by the Pawnee. A young Spanish captive is a slave at first, but later marries into the Pawnee tribe. This is the eighteenth novel in the popular Spanish Bit series that chronicles early contact between native Americans and white settlers and explorers.