Amateur sleuths Robyn, Nick, and Trevor set out on a dangerous adventure to find out who is poaching grizzly bears and removing their gall bladders for use in alternative medicine.
Eleven-year-old Bailey has a reputation for being a coward until the prophecy given him by an Indian medicine man in 1899 in Texas comes true when Bailey encounters a bear in the mountains of Montana.
While accompanying an elderly rancher on a trip into the San Juan Mountains, Cloyd, a Ute Indian boy, tries to help two orphaned grizzly cubs survive the winter and, at the same time, completes his spirit mission.