In 1907 Wisconsin, Kate and her friends discover a timber swindler while visiting their Indian friend, Running Deer, and suspect that Kate's uncle, newly arrived from Sweden, may be involved.
Kate and Anders try to follow the guidance of God when his grandparents travel from Sweden to Wisconsin and Grandma vanishes under mysterious circumstances.
When thirteen-year-old Kate, her stepbrother Anders, and their friend Erik go to visit Kate's blind second cousin in Red Jacket, Michigan, in 1907, they try to find a long-lost map that will supposedly lead to a fortune in silver.