After Mathias' eyeballs twanged the first time that Kashmira giggled, he was entranced. Nothing that she did after that changed his opinion of her. Not her volatile nature; not her lack of social skills; not even when she had sex with classmates in her bedroom. The fact that her father was a crime boss? Not a problem. His habit of murdering other crime bosses? Not that either. Even when Kashmira announced publicly that she was a prostitute, that only attracted Mathias to her more. Even when her father offered a reward for her death, Mathias supported her. When she ended up in a wheelchair with serious health issues, Mathias was there for her.

Doc and Granny tried to help Kashmira get better. They learned why her health was so bad and both tried to help her recover from her life in her father's fortress house. Doc was making progress, but after she forced her father to abandon his fortress, Kashmira went downhill fast. She didn't remember how her father had received justice nor did she remember sitting in a wheel chair with moccasins protecting her feet. Hence the significance of the title.

In other parts of the book: You'll remember Bean, the assassin from the previous novel. In spite of her best intentions to erase her past and become a new woman, two secret agents imprisoned her without telling her why. These agents, Dingle and Dangle, didn't exactly operate in a legal fashion. Yolanda took up Bean's cause and tried to serve as her lawyer. That was difficult to do because the judge had decided before the trial to sentence her to prison. Yolanda ended up in that prison too, but that was because of her skin color.