Why is backward Millstone village, squeezed in a valley of New Mexico's Sacramento Mountains, cut off from neighbor towns? Why do villagers stare like mummies doomed to mindless terror? Are ghastly rumors products of superstition and ignorance, or is a diabolical hermit linked to sinster crimes? Such questions haunt three vacationing college freshmen and test their integrity. Ensnaring them in confusing leads, sinister events emotionally and mystically bind them in an ancient clash of good and evil. The young men's honor, faith, and courage are severely tried, and their ordeal escalates from sorrow, to betrayal, to tragedy, to ultimate triumph.
20 parts