Broken Fields

It’s spring in Minnesota’s Red River Valley, and Cash Blackbear is making extra money plowing fields. When she notices a car running all day in front of a farmhouse, something feels off, so she enters the home, where she finds its owner, Bud Borgerud, shot to death in the kitchen. Bud’s tenants, an Indigenous field worker and his wife, aren’t there, but Cash finds their daughter Shawnee hiding under a bed and informs Wheaton, the county sheriff. Her primary concern is for Shawnee, who seems to be in shock and isn’t speaking; the child may have witnessed the shooting. Borgerud’s widow asks to take in Shawnee, but Cash’s psychic gift tells her to be suspicious of the woman. Instead, she hopes to find Shawnee’s mother before the child is moved to the foster system that Cash barely survived. When another body turns up, Cash gets involved in the murder investigation while searching the White Earth Reservation for the missing mother and trying to keep secrets from Sheriff Wheaton.