It doesn't truly start until seventeen-year-old Speaker Hawke is kidnapped and taken to San Francisco by human traffickers. John Overland, Special Agent for the Tohono O'odham Reservation in Arizona and her stepfather, begins an extra-legal search for her. Her birth father, Tom Hawke is involved but on which side? Is he there to kill John or to help him find the daughter that he hasn't seen in fifteen years? His search becomes desperate when his partner and once daughter-in-law, Simone Overland, is taken, too, and her treatment at their hands is horrific. Arrayed against them is Hiram Rubidoux, a tribal cop, Darryl Rhodes, a PI, and a woman without morals named Sunny Lee. As bad as it is, it gets worse when Jerry Porter, his ex-wife's husband, shows himself as the person who captured Simone. All of them have reasons to kill John Overland. When John frees both Speaker and Simone, he figures it's over. Speaker's premonition that it is not proves all too true. It falls to John to discover what is behind the horror that took his daughter and partner. What motive will drive Speaker Hawke to become a Fourth Degree warrior in her tribe? Read The Four Degrees Of Speaker Hawke to find out.