
"The Apportioner sees what's going on over there and she don't like it. When she gets mad enough, she'll send a punishment, like she did in the old days. Lot of people are going to die". The words were spoken by Zebediah Smoke, whose ramshackle property bordered the Cherokee...

To the police, the death of womanising, unemployed Ed is a simple suicide. But to Molly there is more. Molly is determined to climb a hill of clues to prove that the death was murder, and unravel the riddle of the seven stones found near Ed's body.