Guardian of the Hills

The pyramid-shaped hills were built in a mythic time, and to the Native Americans of Arkansas they are sacred and alive. Now Pamela’s grandfather means to excavate the hills. He dismisses with contempt the legends of the Quapaw Indians, his own wife’s people. Instead, he seeks the glory of discovering an early American culture as rich as the Aztecs’. But as men and machinery move into the scorching valley, there are terrible accidents, violent fights and accusations. Crows begin to gather in the hellish heat…thousands of them, ominous and waiting. For something is awakening beneath the hills of the Quapaw, an ancient evil eager to be free. And Pamela, barely aware of her own Native American heritage, is caught between her grandfather’s close-minded beliefs and a supernatural being who reaches out to her in dreams. She must face the choice her mother rejected years ago: to embrace the destiny that awaits her in the hills, or deny the truest part of herself forever.