When Hope Howland, forensic artist and archeologist, uncovers the bones of a mutilated child in her aunt's yard, she must face the fact that someone in her close-knit, Mayflower-descended family is a murderer. She is drawn into an investigation by Gabe Bennett, a Southern police detective planted in the heart of Yankee territory after a tense divorce. A trail of dead bodies points to prime suspects: Hope, her business woman grandmother and her sex-obsessed cousin. Rumors of witchcraft, demons and curses swirl around the family. As Hope loses her heart to Gabe, she must fight to make sense of...