Katie Reynolds, a young veterinary doctor from California is asked to find a disease spreading from animals to people in the war ravaged hills of Kurdistan, causing the unlucky people to scratch at themselves, howl at the moon, and bark at intruders. Although the study is dangerous, Katie wants to participate. She knows that helping these foreign villages will give her better insight into guiding the health of her own people, the Dine', the Navajo Indians of the Southwestern United States. Unexpectedly, Katie finds herself cast into a horrible survival predicament. To stay alive in this...

Katie returns to her native reservation as a new veterinarian where evil spirits, both Ute and Navajo are on a tirade to push her back out. Temporarily defeated she joins Rory at his veterinary practice in California where he shows her the beauty of the paradise he has discovered. He reopens an old veterinary clinic to entice her to settle in with him. Katie cannot shake the call to return to learning; sure she can help her people if only she knew more. But she is falling deeply in love with Rory and must find a balance between her desires and his future wishes. Rory proposes to her hoping...