Some things are best left buried ... but old secrets have a habit of washing up.It's springtime in northern Michigan, and all is picture-perfect - until part-time journalist and struggling mystery writer Emily Kincaid gets a visit from her crabby, foul-weather friend Deputy Dolly. Frantically demanding help, Dolly says that receding waters at Sandy Lake have revealed a bullet-pierced skull, and a keepsake that could mean serious trouble for a man Dolly once loved.
When another skeleton surfaces, Emily finds herself wading through Dolly's painful past, digging into Leetsville's darker history, and dodging threats from an outraged Odawa Indian - who may be protecting more than just sacred land. Emily and Dolly are dead-set on solving the crime, even if it costs broken hearts ... or even their lives.
