Twenty years ago, a darkness descended upon the Walkers of Tucson, Arizona - an Anglo family with solid ties to the legends and history of the Tohono O'othham Indian nation. A personified evil named Andrew Carlisle, a psycopath in the guise of a nondescript college professor, brought blood and terror into their world, stalking, attacking, and nearly murdering Diana Ladd Walker and her young son, Davy. But Diana fought back, blinding and crippling...

Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye, but also the negative connotation...