Here Maggie is manipulated into fighting her old immortal mentor and ex, the Monster Slayer, Neizghání. He sends her to a club, the Shalimar, to meet Mósí, a cat- like immortal being that possesses the drill. He tells her of a tool that can help her fight the tsé naayéé’, the Fire Drill. Rissa is injured but the monsters are defeated when Kai summons his powers and creates a fire tornado.Īt Grace’s, Coyote comes to visit Maggie. Maggie, Kai and Grace’s children, Rissa and Clive, go to hunt tsé naayéé’ they hear of attacking a nearby town. Here, Maggie notices Kai heals very quickly realizing he has strong healing powers. She takes the injured Kai to a property run by Grace Goodachre, a refuge for those on the run. A law official of the Law Dogs, Longarm, tries to kill Kai as he had warned him and Maggie not to return. She and Kai discover that Tah’s house has been burnt down and that he is presumed dead. Maggie, ignoring Coyote’s request, goes to Tse Bonito when she hears of a fire there. He asks Maggie to go somewhere for him and fight against a god, handing her colored, feathered rings to assist her in her mission. Returning to Maggie’s trailer, Maggie and Kai encounter Coyote. In the library they collect CDs with the oral histories of their people to try and uncover more information. When they arrive, they see that all the townspeople have been killed by the monsters, the tsé naayéé’. Maggie and Kai go to Crownpoint to seek out information in the library there. Tah introduces Maggie to his grandson, Kai, believing he would make a good partner in her hunt for the truth about the monster she has killed. She takes the head of the monster to a medicine man she is close with, Tah, in Tse Bonito. Maggie has been hunting monsters since her clan powers were awakened when witches slaughtered her grandmother.

She kills the monster but also kills the girl, believing her to be infected after the monster’s attack.

Maggie Hoskie, the novel’s first person narrator, begins by describing her trip to Lukachukai to hunt a monster that had kidnapped a young girl. It is isolated from the rest of the world by a 50 foot wall, constructed to protect the population after the Energy Wars and the Big Water. The novel is set in Dinétah, populated by the Diné or Navajo people. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Roanhorse, Rebecca.

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