College instructor Shadow Walker offers young student Bethanie refuge from the looming threat of the skinwalker on their Virginia college campus. The mythological shapeshifter terrorizing the students has cleared the campus, except for homeless Bethanie. Shadow Walker, a Native American man without a tribe, lives in a world that labels him too white to be native and too native to be white. Bethanie Hutchinson, a young woman without a family, finds a sense of belonging living and caring for her beloved barn owls on the campus of Ferra College in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains. Her innocence causes him to question everything he holds dear, just as Bethanie questions her own spirituality. Can he let go of his past and make room for Bethanie in his hardened heart? Will Bethanie allow herself to be taken care of by this dangerously sexy man? Or will her fear prevent her from having the family she has always dreamed of?