World War II is raging, and seventeen-year-old Odyssey Magee waits anxiously for news about the fate of her two brothers. While they are fighting in Europe, she has her own battles against nature and evil in the form of a serial killer who has escaped the law and is hiding in the colorful Caprock Canyons close by her home in the Texas Panhandle. Odyssey finds out what she's made of when she takes on hair-raising dangers and learns about love, fighting to save her life and that of her beautiful cousin.