Five Cherokee lie ritually slain
in a Carolina cave, scalps shaved and faces
tattooed in the style of a long vanished
secret medicine society. The tribes say it
is the work of a spirit creature they call
Uktena...the Snake Ghost.
Determined to find the real slayer and
stop the butcherous rites, B.I.A. agent
Caleb Easton and forensic psychologist
Ellen Masterson track a grisly trail. It leads
west to sacred burial grounds in Oklahoma
and finally to Aztec ruins and outcast
Mormon polygamy colonies in the
wilderness mountains of Mexico.
CIRCLE OF FIRE weaves Native American
mysticism and the strange Mormon folk
legend of The Three Nephites in a quest
for a lost sacred treasure and a mythical
killer whose crimes span centuries.