Reunited by a grave robber and a corpse, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant
Joe Leaphorn is trying to determine the identity of a murder victim,
while Officer Jim Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry
Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors.
But with each peeled-back layer, it becomes shockingly clear that these
two cases are mysteriously connected -- and that others are pusuing
Highhawk, with lethal intentions. And the search for answers to a deadly
puzzle is pulling Leaphorn and Chee into the perilous arena of
superstition, ancient ceremony, and living gods.