Whip-poor-will, a Cherokee nicknamed Will, runs for his life. John Hunter, after taking a mandatory DNA test by the US Government, is thrown into prison without knowing why. Dr. Paula Weston with a doctorate in genetics and anthropology from Harvard has hired a bodyguard, Greg, a former Navy Seal, to protect her after her book, Dancing With Neanderthals, starts to cause panic across the USA. The wolves have stopped howling and the dogs no longer bark.