The Fiddler of God is a novel about a young girl named Mary Chin who turns up in 1904 Bakersfield, California after surviving an enigmatic past in China during the era of the Boxer Rebellion. One morning she picks up an old violin in a music store and plays like the greatest virtuoso the world has ever seen. Problem is, before that moment, she has neither seen nor touched a violin before in her life.

Local newspaperman, Martin Conroy, sees her story as the last chance to redeem his lackluster career. He promotes the 'Miracle Girl' while privately assuming she must be a prodigy of sorts with a past she doesn't want to reveal. He brings her to the state wide competition in Sacramento where she attracts the attention of both the Concertmaster of the San Francisco Philharmonic and the Reverend Lucius McWhite, proprietor of a local tent show.

McWhite suspects that Mary's virtuoso talents may obscure another ability as well - an ability he would very much like to exploit and control. Mary enters both of their worlds and discovers directions for her life that she'd never imagined. One direction she hadn't anticipated was to end up captive in a ship bound for Peru...

Following all of Mary's adventures through the newspapers back in his mountain lair, is Tom Frost, legendary scout and tracker - who figures he just might have a connection to one of the principals in her story that goes back to the Civil War - a connection he'd rather not renew.

When he gets the call to find the girl he sets out with some misgivings, being finally caught up in a story that might be bigger than his already outsized life.

Ah, but I've told enough. You may follow the confluence of all of their fates in The Fiddler of God.