Emily and Nick are back, working another death investigation that turns very personal.
A skeleton is discovered at a construction site on the day of the funeral for Emily's father, with an oncoming storm threatening the condition of the site and remains. Nick is sure who the victim is even before Emily can call in a bone expert to help with the identification: Sandi, a victimized girl who vanished when they were all in high school. And Nick was one of the last ones to see her alive.
The investigation moves forward, despite small town politics and penny-pinching and high school stupidity and secrets getting in the way. Emily repeatedly advises Nick to pull back, put someone else in charge, and most important, get a lawyer, because he could be implicated. Especially when his letterman jacket is found buried near Sandi's skeleton.
With so many changes and questions, Emily is pressured from multiple directions to decide what to do next with her life, her career, her relationships. She makes some choices that once again put her in danger, and threaten her relationship with Nick, which is still being re-knit after so many years apart.
Whew! Satisfying ending -- of course -- and yet it leaves lots of questions about what Emily and Nick will do next, if they will be together, what kind of future they have, thanks to the choices they make as a result of this latest investigation. I sure hope there's more.
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