Central Kansas Library System

In pre-Columbian Florida, inhabitants of a fishing village are forced to confront their fears about Pondwader, a fifteen-year-old albino boy whom legends foretell will unleash a time of destruction on their people.

The Great Sun Chief endangers the entire Anasazi empire when he sets out to kill Cornsilk, the child his wife secretly bore to another man fifteen years earlier, forcing the girl to flee her attackers, along with her friend Poor Singer, and struggle to survive while she seeks to discover her true identity.