"A powerful mystery about a Native America n archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who must reckon with her past when she is called back to Oklahoma to investigate both the disappear ance of her sister and a new case of a missing Native girl that turns up e vidence with her name on it. Syd Walker fled her rural Oklahoma hometown-s carred by abandoned mines and a mounting opioid crisis-and never looked ba ck. Now\, she lives in Rhode Island as an archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. It's Syd's job to make sure the Indigenous past isn't eras ed so that their future is preserved\, too. When a woman's skull is found by local Indian Affairs authorities and Syd's sister is reported missing\, she knows she must return home. She doesn't want her sister\, Emma Lou\, to become another statistic in the rising number of missing Native women c ases that go uninvestigated. But not everyone is glad to have Syd home. Af ter all\, she still works for the BIA. Class tensions\, land disputes\, an d the aftermath of a traumatizing act of violence from her youth come roar ing back. Syd must battle her own demons and those set on destroying her t own and her people if she's ever going to find Emma Lou."
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