Faith Kitagwa's mother is a Cherokee medicine woman in the tradition of Nan’yehi. Faith's father is a first generation Japanese American. Faith has discovered that the world is stranger and she is more powerful than she ever imagined possible. Faith is still learning about her powers, and exploring her worlds, which are changing around her as different traditions gain ascendancy in the spirit realms.
Faith has been asked to recover a collection of stolen gold when murder, a couple of ghosts, a demon and something else threaten. With the aid of the spirits of Thunderbird, and Bear, along with the largest and the thinnest men she has ever met she has to solve the puzzle of Caligula's Gold or die.