[From the back cover:] PRESERVING THE SPIRIT OF THE WEST Here, from acclaimed frontier novelist Bill Hotchkiss, is a powerful novel of an extraordinary woman, the only man who is her match, and their fight to protect the heritage of their land. ... Tamar Emerson [is] a zoologist who travels with two tame wolves in her van. He is game warden Sam Thurston, whose loyalties lie more with the wild coyotes than with the sheep herders he was hired to protect. They meet at Tamar's family homestead near Idaho's beautiful Lost River Range. Together they make a formidable pair, and when an all-out attack is launched against the coyotes, Tamar and Sam discover that the values and love they share are worth fighting for--and dying for.