Lindsay Chamberlain has a problem. People keep finding bodies in shallow graves and bringing the bones to her. It's not that she doesn't know what to do with the remains. An anthropologist who specialises in archacology, she is an expert in forensic analysis of bones. It's the bones of missing children that disturb her, as for several years, someone has been abducting young girls in the area and their remains have recently been found in shallow graves. Many strange things have happened since Lindsay and her colleagues from the Anthropology Department first began excavating the Indian settlement at Jasper Creek. She finds herself in the middle of a crime that took place sixty years earlier and because so much time has passed, it looks as if the murderer will get off with the crime. Can Lindsay provide the proof needed to bring the killer to justice?