A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is summoned to rural Oklahoma to investigate the disappearance of two women...one of them her sister. There are secrets in the land. As an archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs Syd Walker spends her days in Rhode Island trying to protect the lands indigenous past even as shes escaping her own. While Syd is dedicated to her job shes haunted by a night of violence she barely escaped in her Oklahoma hometown fifteen years ago. Though she swore shed never go back the past comes calling. When a skull is found near the crime scene of her youth just as her sister Emma Lou vanishes Syd knows she must return home. She refuses to let her sisters disappearance or the remains go ignored-as so often happens in cases of missing Native women. But not everyone is glad to have Syd home and she can feel the crosshairs on her. Still the deeper Syd digs the more she uncovers about a string of missing indigenous women cases going back decades. To save her sister she must expose a darkness in the town that no one wants to face-not even Syd. The truth will be unearthed.
