The Dollarhides live in Aquinnah on Martha's Vineyard, among the Wampanoags, who have allowed them to buy an old house on tribal land because Charlie's father is a full-blooded Mohawk. George Dollarhide works as a highly skilled cabinet maker and raises range chickens for some better restaurants on the island.

Charlie runs... fast, and even as a freshman he makes the track team which helps a lot in getting along with other kids because Charlie is still short and skinny and while he may have the warrior heart of his Mohawk forebears, he's still some distance away from being ready to go on the warpath.

But for everyone in the family, life on the vineyard holds substantial promise until their next door neighbor, Albert "Tall Owl" Martinson, is murdered and the police arrest Charlie's father.

Only Charlie seems capable of solving the murder because only Charlie knows who killed Mr. Martinson. The problem is that he doesn't really know, only that every now and then the hackles stand up on the back of his neck.

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