Tracks of bare feet in the snow . . . and a little girl who is more than she seems. A barefoot girl holding a small scroll arrives in the snowy foothills near Dickensonville, Oregon. She doesn't speak and the only person she will let near her is Bjorn Christensen, the college football player everyone calls Tank. An immediate bond is formed. She is sweet. Innocent. And apparently not of this world-and something wants to kill her. Tank and the team have an impossible mystery on their hands-a mystery of life and death.