While visiting Spanish Market in her hometown of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Glory Vigil has an unsettling interaction with an art dealer there. There's something about this man that makes her uneasy, and when she buys a clay pot from one of the artists he represents, she has no idea the purchase will lead her somewhere she can't imagine.
Once in despair over the loss of his best friend and the back injury that forced him into retirement, former detective Joseph Vigil is a changed man since his marriage to Glory. It's Glory's birthday but his visit to a farm to buy her a gift turns out to be step one in an investigation he never expected to make, one that makes him long to return to his work in the police crime lab.
Glory and Joseph's adopted daughter Juniper is coming off her first serious breakup, certain love will never find her again. Her college fieldwork in forensic anthropology brings her in contact with someone she thought long gone and forgotten, erased from her past....