Sleeping Tiger Zen Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a silent retreat when a three day snowstorm blows in trapping everyone on site at the remote monastery in Taos County, New Mexico. A murderer with multiple scores to settle is among the attendees.  Sheriff Ulysses Walker of Taos County, comes to investigate, with his friend, Picuris War Chief Ray Pando, and FBI  agent LizBeth Tallichet lends a hand. Walker, Pando and Tallichet will appear in two additional books in the series.