The Cottonwood Children

Fifty years ago, two children disappeared. Now their story can finally be
told.
When construction workers uncover two children’s skeletons beneath the roots
of an old cottonwood in the Skagit Valley, Detective Sergeant Maggie Sullivan is
called to investigate.
The children have been buried for nearly fifty years. There are no records of their
deaths, no graves, and no one who seems to have been looking for them.
With the help of forensic anthropology student Sarah Ingram and environmental
investigator Elena Navarro, Maggie begins to piece together the boys’ forgotten
past. What first appears to be a decades-old tragedy soon raises disturbing
questions about the family they came from, and how two children could vanish
without anyone coming forward.
As the investigation reaches back into a deeply troubled family that has kept its
past hidden, Maggie discovers that the truth has survived in unexpected places.
But uncovering what happened to the boys is only the beginning.
The Cottonwood Children is a haunting mystery of lost childhoods, family ties, and a fifty-year search for answers.