Archaeologist Emma Fielding is beginning to doubt the wisdom
of spending her vacation in England helping friends excavate
a twelfth-century abbey, especially when they uncover an
all-too-modern skeleton in a nearby medieval graveyard. But
it's the second discovery -- of a murdered graduate student
recently missing from the dig -- that suggests to Emma that
Marchester isn't exactly the quiet riverside town it appears
to be. There are dark passions and lethal secrets buried
here, heinous crimes that shake the conflicted community to
its core. And it's up to Emma, an outsider far from home, to
delve into a past that too many people -- including her
friends -- would do anything to hide.