The Healing Waters of Cacique Spring

Young New Mexico archaeology professor Buck Tyler is a media-hound pot-hunter and womanizer. When a grizzled publisher of treasure-hunting stories hires him to persuade an organization of psychic forensic investigators to use their powers to locate ancient Anasazi healing sites they are joined by beautiful Pueblo Indian psychic-touch-reader Sharon Hightower on an expedition to a tiny village in southern New Mexico. There they discover the story-within-a-story psychic record of a tale of betrayal murder a wrongfully-acquired Indian healing spring and an Anasazi ceremonial treasure cave wherein they encounter a radical Indian traditionalist an obsessed priest a tonic-peddling quack and El Cacique a long-dead medicine chief. When it becomes apparent that someone among the principals is involved in that long-past deception the story is driven to its exciting conclusion.