1565. Calling Crow moves southeast in search of his wife, Juana, taken by the Spanish. He is captured and badly wounded by the Coosa people. Unable to care for himself, he is saved from a slow, painful death and nursed back to health by Green Bird Woman, who he grows to love. Flight of the Crow follows the evolution of Calling Crow in his efforts to stop the invaders to his lands. Employing his dreams and his skills as a warrior, Calling Crow temporarily fends off not only the Spanish, but a new invader, the French. Then he must call upon all his skills and power in his attempt to change an ordained future.