This "Alice in Wonderland" adventure descends into Hell"s Canyon and into caverns of the narrator"s past as author Karen Banfield agrees to vacation in the wilderness with War Eagle and his sons­--all men from the Wolf Clan of the Cherokee Nation. In the wilderness she finds the men hungry for a woman"s way of knowing, while their unpretentious and nature-loving presence provide a quality of respect and acceptance she has never known. Having surrendered to hopelessness about changing a destructive relationship with men, Karen has unknowingly put herself in the very place that will heal that pattern forever. In an environment of spectacular beauty, she finds her world challenged, enlarged and ultimately transformed. In the canyon, and later in a simple life with War Eagle, she is able to reclaim her power. Through his life and death she encounters the most wounded places in her heart and the most genuine part of herself.