Chief Detective David Wolf's son has a new girlfriend, and when she discovers her father-a well known man in ancient fossils trade circles-has been murdered, she and the rest of her shattered family turn to Wolf to bring them justice. With the help of a small town sheriff and a retired police dog named Jet, Wolf follows the clues to a dig site in western Colorado, where secrets have been entombed for eons, and people are dying to keep them that way...