One spiritual threat has been destroyed, but another lingers over the Thumb region. State Senator Shawn Ramirez and his staff struggle to understand the powerful yet ill-defined government entity that has been created, encompassing his district and tightening its grip over the lives of his constituents. Ojibwa scholar Gerald Solomon strives to understand the connection between strange events recorded in a four hundred year old diary and an ominous message delivered to a tribal seer in a mystical vision. Newly wed Todd and Grace Beck find themselves drawn back into danger as inhumane government policies threaten the liberty of some friends and the live of their unborn child. Meanwhile, a familiar yet mysterious amnesiac may hold the clue that will lay bare the web of deceit and destroy it at the root.The Tattered Web is the fourth book in the Watchful Sky series, picking up where The Wounded Land left off. It examines the true nature of evil, how it can be expressed in the political and social conditions we find ourselves entering, and what it will take to fight it.