The most powerful shaman is the one brought closest to death by the Three Trials. Geser is a trainee shaman who has complete the Mental Trial and the Physical Trial, which damn near killed him. Now he must undergo the Spiritual Trial and learn how a shaman must operate in the real world. The problem is he is a car thief in modern Texas, an illegal import from Siberia, yet he must call upon the world's oldest magic to stay alive and become. Based upon the actual mythology of shamanism..