Canyon Spirits

Deep In The Colorado Rocky Mountains Unspeakable Evil Rears Its Ugly Head Of Destruction. Fire And Death Are At Its Core. Nathan Braswell Leaves His Home In West Texas For A Much Needed Extended Vacation In The Colorado Rocky Mountains And Unwittingly Becomes Embroiled In Events Involving Murders Attempted Witness Assassinations Fires And Explosions Illegal Drug Trafficking And A Race To Find The Evil Behind It All. After Two Weeks Of Trail Riding And Hiking With Three Lifelong Friends Nathan Begins Another Two Weeks Venturing About The Mountains On His Own. While Hiking In One Of The National Forests He And Rachel Greystone A Young Pregnant Widow By Happenstance Witness A Double Murder At A Distance; She With Her Video Camera And He With His Binoculars. While Being Kept In A Witness Protection Safe-House Nathan And Rachel Have To Flee For Their Lives When The House Is Attacked And The Sheriff’S Deputy On Duty Is Killed. After Working Their Way Through The Forest And Canyons To A Friend’S Home Nathan Contacts His Uncle Collin O’Quinn A Senior Special Agent Of The Fbi’S Paranormal Profiling Identification And Investigative Division. Certain Actions By The Sherriff’S Personnel Cause Nathan To Strongly Believe Someone In The Sheriff’S Department Is In On The Murders And The Safe House Attack. Rachel Is Sent To A Safe Location While Nathan Returns To Cedar Cross With The Fbi To Do His Duty As A Witness. After Abandoning His “Kill-For-Pay” Operation In Chicago Kane Baker Carefully Re-Engineered His Life. In Recent Years He Has Lived A Double Existence In Colorado; One As A County Official And The Other As The Mastermind Of An Illegal Pharmaceutical Drug Business. One Disturbing Facet Of Kane’S Psyche Is He Worships Everything About Fire. It Makes Him Euphoric Especially If It Is Burning Away Skin Hair Muscles Internal Organs And Bone - Consuming His Victims Until Nothing But Ashes Remain. Kane Is Determined To Get Rid Of One Of His Main Operatives In His Illegal Drug Business. He Calls Upon Two People From His Chicago Past Leland Belfour And Rosso Venturo To Handle The Execution Of Stillman And His Bimbo Of The Week While They Trail Ride In The Mountains. After Botching The Job In The Mountains By Unknowingly Letting It Be Witnessed The Two Men Go On Their Own Killing Spree In The Mountains While Kane And His Local Security Team Are Left To Deal With The Clean Up And Getting Rid Of The Witnesses. Sarah Mccloud Is New To The Pickers Falls Sheriff’S Department – Where She Feels She Is Being Mistreated. Her Self-Confidence Takes A Beating But With Her Feisty Personality She Perseveres. She Is Assigned To Nathan’S Witness Protection At His Second Safe-House Unknowing Of The Circumstances That Got Him There. Once Again Nathan Is Forced To Flee But This Time He Has To Convince Sarah To Go With Him. Several Members Of Nathan’S Family Arrive In Cedar Cross To Help With The Investigation. His Mom Alanna York Is Also A Fbi Agent Who Works With His Uncle Colin In The Fbi Paranormal Profiling Identification And Investigative Division. They Use Their Paranormal Skills To Help Coordinate And Conduct The Investigation. Deputy Sarah Mccloud’S Grandfather Walker Ankatosh A Retired Police Chief (Who Has A Few Paranormal Skills Of His Own) Joins The Group And Decides To Shadow The Mountain Escapees To Insure Their Safety. Nathan Braswell Appeared As A Teenager In The Novel ‘Stone Lion’ Written By B.H. Luther.