Fifteen-year old Dani likes the blues, bad boys, and
trouble, and has no problems attracting any of them. When she moves with her dad for the summer
from Minneapolis to the rural Ozark town he was raised in, she’s soon in deeper
than ever. She experiments with smoking
pot, puzzles over the Indian bear claw necklace her grandfather left her, and
falls for seventeen-year old guitar-picker Eli.
Eli recruits Dani into his bluegrass band and charms her
with his knowledge of local Indian lore.
Dani finds him mystical and alluring, all the more so when she discovers
his penchant for sudden violence. Others
are worried about Dani and watching out for her well-being: her dad; her
eccentric Aunt Eunice who raises her own food and keeps dead rattlesnakes in
the freezer; and the hot but straight-arrow preacher’s son, Austin.
But even their help may not be enough to protect Dani when
Eli reveals to her a hidden Indian burial site and his plans to perform a
ritual there to keep his sick father alive.
He needs Dani because he believes her bear claw allows her to harness
the site’s spiritual energy. Unfortunately,
the ritual also requires a human sacrifice and Dani must decide whether to risk
her safety by turning against Eli—or if she even wants to.
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