When a forgotten grave is uncovered at the abandoned cemetery of Washington’s Eastern State Hospital, a tarnished silver locket becomes the first clue in a mystery buried for nearly fifty years.
University student Sarah Ingram, environmental investigator Elena Navarro, and Detective Sergeant Maggie Sullivan soon discover that the grave contains far more than human remains. Hidden beneath decades of silence lies a trail of betrayal, greed, forbidden relationships, and a pair of deaths long dismissed as natural.
As each new discovery peels away another layer of deception, the investigation reaches from an abandoned psychiatric hospital cemetery to a Yakima Valley farm, where old loyalties and family secrets cast long shadows. But some witnesses have spent a lifetime protecting the truth—and some confessions come only when death is near.
With time running out and the truth refusing to stay buried, Sarah, Elena, and Maggie must uncover the truth before the last surviving secrets disappear forever.
