Bookseller Adrien English arrives at the Pine Shadow Ranch in the Sierra Nevada mountains, expecting a little peace and solitude.

Instead he finds a corpse in his driveway.

By the time the local sheriff arrives, the body has vanished.

Now Adrien is left with far more questions than answers. Who was the dead man? Why are strangers digging on his remote property? And what dark secret lies buried in the lonely California mountains?

Unfortunately for Adrien, the one person who might help him untangle the mystery—LAPD homicide detective Jake Riordan—is still back in Los Angeles

But someone out there knows exactly what happened to the missing corpse. Someone determined to keep their secrets buried.