Arizona based native American ex-cop and private investigator Noel Two Horses, agrees to accept a stolen vehicle public defender case at the urging of his partner Claire Blue Crow. However, the defendant may also be charged with murder because a body was in the trunk of the stolen car he was driving. When the defendant's elderly brother steps in and hires both Blue Crow and Two Horses to help prove his brother's innocence the case rabidly transitions into a spinning maze of multiple drug cartel related homicides. The two must hide their client from the cartel while trying to establish his innocence to the court. The task may be insurmountable when it is discovered that he and his brother shared a long history with the drug cartel.