Summers on the Reservation hold little but boredom for Darly until she learns who her father really is. First of all, he is not dead, as she believed, but alive, somewhere under the hills. He is one of the wanaghi, a Native American version of the Sidhe. This knowledge sends her on a quest to meet her father and lands her in the middle of a war and on a journey that will lead her to her true love. Can she help forge peace between warring peoples and will Darly at last discover where she is supposed to be in life?

This could almost be classified as a Young Adult novel; however, the subject matter does get a little more mature than some parents may feel comfortable with younger teens reading. The narrative is told in simple, clean prose that is easy to follow and has some elements that will remind you of Charles De Lint.

Synopsis
Young, brash Darly can't overcome her anger at a father she never knew. Viv, her secretive mother, can't get over the man himself. What Darly doesn't know, and what Viv refuses to tell her, is that her father is not of human blood. One of the elusive wanaghi, the fey-like folk who live beneath the Dakotan hills, he left Viv to return to his own kind before realizing that she would bear his child. When the gift of a bone whistle brings Darly's father to her, she finally discovers who he is. She decides, against her mother's advice, to follow him to his land under the hills. There she meets the rest of her family ...and a young man who steals her heart. Even knowing the dangers, Darly can't help but fall in love and into the intriques of the wanaghi.