The Moon Beneath the Mountains is the story of two brothers, Temmonin and Damowan, who live in a village in a culture very much like the Native American cultures that lived in the Great Lakes region before Europeans reached America. Tragedy strikes the village when one of their neighbors' entire family is brutally yet mysteriously murdered. The two brothers are sent with others to help find the murderers but they find themselves entangled in a story much more complicated than they could have imagined.