"Detective Sam Chitto of the Choctaw Tribal Police takes a walk on the wild side in NO TRESPASSING. It's autumn in southeastern Oklahoma when Chitto finally gets time off from an exhausting workload due to the epidemic. He's not only bone tired but also feeling guilty because he's neglected personal responsibilities. He needs to check on his mother and grandmother and take care of his old horse Blue that he's decided to put out to pasture at his mother's rural home. As he makes the drive north from Durant, he's drawn to the dark line of hills to the east. The Ouachita Wilderness is a Paradise for naturalists and one of his favorite places. Regrettably, there will be no time to visit Paradise on this trip. He no more than gets Blue in the pasture, however, when Oklahoma Game Warden Crystal Folsom arrives. Crystal tells him that her grandmother, Peony Folsom, an elderly woman Chitto helped years before, has sent her to "fetch" him. Something mysterious is going on in the Ouachita Wilderness causing animals to die and people to become seriously ill, including Peony's grandson. Peony wants Chitto to investigate and stop those responsible. Unable to say no to the elderly woman, Chitto heads into the Wilderness where he encounters a crusty set of characters and a mysterious place called Area X where a consortium is trying to prove that an old folktale is true. Trained as a scientist that deals with fact, Chitto never put stock in old tales, but what he discovers on this trip challenges those beliefs." -- Page 4 of cover.