After Adam and Joe take an early spring ride up into the mountains, Joe comes home alone with fragmented memories and a haunting fear that Adam might never come home at all. A story told in two voices: Joe's and Adam's.

A man of God who lacks true faith heads into the desert on a quest for miracles - and draws the Cartwright brothers into his misbegotten pilgrimage.

A night of brotherly bonding is complicated by a group of distrustful vaqueros and a jug of pulque; and the morning after - two days later - opens Adam's eyes to a whole new dimension in his relationship with Little Joe.

A lost little girl, a restless Little Joe and a hungry puma converge, sparking a story that explores what it means to have family looking out for you-or counting on you to look out for them.

After Little Joe's testimony helps put a noose around the neck of a murderer, his nightmares are nothing compared to the reality that comes to haunt him.