So Adam and Vicki are living together and running a law firm together...and Vicki is doing her best not to cross paths with Father John. However, they are drawn back together when a petroglyph is stolen from a sacred spot in the hills between the Arapahoe and Shoshone reservations. This mirrors a case from several years previous, after which one man is killed and his purported murderer is sent to jail. Vicki is hired by the imprisoned man's grandfather to exonerate him. In doing so, she is run off the road twice, hospitalized once, and nearly shot and killed.Meanwhile, John is contacted as a go-between by the thief who offers the Indians the chance to buy back the 'glyph. And there is a visiting priest whose presence is a favor to an old friend, and boss. It becomes obvious that this old man is not the innocuous person he looks like, prompting John to confront the Provincial and threaten to throw the man out.
It all comes together with the petroglyph being recovered, the Indians keeping their money, the guy in jail being released....but Vicki and Adam find their differing views of life untenable, and Father John inches closer to his incipient reassignment elsewhere.
The only part of the story I wasn't thrilled with was cheap exit the problem-priest was allowed. Good story otherwise.
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