A 12-year-old girl named Punky Rose Bagley, her friend Sheldon McNamara, small town Ravenswood, Iowa in the 1960's, a mysterious car found in the town's quarry, a murdered man on the Indian Trail by the river, a mother in a mental institution with her mind tipped sideways, the girl's guardian Aunt Haz Limestone, a reprobate from the town living in Florida, two mysterious stalkers, and Sheriff Conneally... all come together to tell this intriguing tale of love and evil in this small town, Iowa.