Feeling at sea with her professional and personal life, homicide counselor Tally Whyte is slapped with a conundrum: a skull found in an ancient Anasazi pot appears to be that of her good friend, Delphine.

That mystery, combined with a brutal murder close to home sends Tally on her most dangerous and daring quest yet.

In this, Tally's fourth outing, she travels to Martha's Vineyard and to New Mexico, where she's been offered a job with the New Mexico medical examiner's office. It's there, that her hunt for a killer heats up, particularly since she seems to be the newest object of the killer's intentions.