A New York Times Bestseller On a hot July afternoon, a worker at an Antietam Creek construction site drives the blade of his backhoe into a layer of soil and strikes a 5,000-year-old human skull. The discovery draws a lot of attention and more controversy. It also changes Callie Dunbrook's life in ways she never expected. As an archaeologist, Callie knows a lot about the past -- but her own past is about to be called into question. Recruited for her expertise on the Antietam Creek dig, she encounters danger as death and misfortune haunt the project, and rumors fly that the site is cursed. Joining forces in her work with her irritating but irresistible ex-husband Jake, she finds a passion that feels equally dangerous.