After Eric Glenn's dog, Buster, apparently drowns in the river, the animal's searching soul is switched with that of a giant prehistoric saber-wolf, Lopoz. The killer thunder wolf returns to the land of southern Wisconsin that he once terrorized during the last Ice Age, 10,000 years earlier. With worlds out of flux, Eric, friends, and family are cast into a fantastic journey of hope and fear, awaiting the ultimate deliverance and final peace of the fabled THUNDERBIRD, in the page-turning climax

The year is 1692. The story starts with a dare among Midwestern, teenage girls swimming in Kettle Lake: who can stay under the longest? Shasta Bloodworth wins, the hard way: almsost drowning and strangely connecting with her alter ego, a water sprite, Phoebe Nichols, who was unjustly doused as a witch exactly 300 years prior, in historical Salem, then condemned to forever remain in Norwood Pond by the evil warlock Goodman Bartholomew. Shasta goes back in time with Phoebe, and then the evils of Salem follow her back to modern times. Given the same circumstances for mass hysteria, will the...