Dalia, a smart Navajo student, lives on an Indian Reservation but attends a modern, urban church. Native American university classes open her eyes to the damage Christianity inflicted on the tribe. Tensions grow between her and her "schizophrenic," legend-telling, bible-teaching father. With scholastic eloquence she buries any notion of a Native American - Israeli connection. Mounting peer tension pushes Dalia to completely ditch her faith, and redirected funds for the much-anticipated Silk Road trip vanish, inciting Dalia's own mad journey back to her genetic kin - the nomads of Central Asia. After days on the road, she sells her pick-up, buys passage across the Baring Straight, onto the Trans Siberian, and eventually lands in Muslim Kyrgyzstan - the origin of her forefathers' chromosomes. Along the way an old Native tells her that tribal people are a last hope for planet earth. Baring Straight icebergs remind Dalia of her father's "creation myths." Siberians speak about a lost golden ark, a book like the Torah, and their belief in a savior. Kyrgyzstan welcomes their "lost sister" and entrusts Dalia to a pretty journalist who presents Dalia with Kyrgyzstan's own "Wounded Knee" tragedy. Dalia's televised interview enrages a foreign warlord who notices Dalia piecing together ancient cultures and biblical nomads. Jaz, the gorgeous journalist, sweeps Dalia away to a yurt camp in the mountains. Dalia fits in so naturally that the shepherd doesn't realize she is foreign - even after a romantic horse ride. Dalia's drift from Christianity solidifies; even as she observes legends and customs that mirror the biblical prophets. In Arizona her dad's struggle with his pastor intensifies as he copes with Dalia's (the college's Miss Indian's) publicized disappearance. Extremists in Kyrgyzstan, who must destroy the "pagan Indian girl" to keep freedom loving nomads in a doctrinal grip, track and catch Dalia and Jaz. Using obscure Koranic verses learned in captivity, Dalia is able to create enough havoc to secure Jaz's release. But the main warlord keeps his focus, forcing Dalia to denounce Christianity and accept Islam, which she does. When told to denounce the ancient biblical oracles, she can't - she is unable to deny her loyalty to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; tribal leaders who strangely connect her forefathers to Jews, Christians, and Muslims and all indigenous nations circling the globe. Within days a jittery web-site video portrays her execution. Kyrgyzstan and Arizona mourn her death, but a year later beautiful Jaz brings good news and a unique invitation to the Indian Reservation. The story is tracked through the eyes of a Jewish consular working in Kyrgyzstan. His mission: to find Dalia before moving on to wrap up peace accords in the Middle East.