When an excavator at Greyhaven’s waterfront lifts more than soil, the bones it reveals drag the coastal town back into a nightmare it never stopped feeding. Forensic Expert Maren Mendoza and her K9 partner, Mako, are called in alongside Detective Jack Fallon—and the cut marks whisper a name that should be the Washington State Ripper. But the timeline is wrong, the geography is wrong… and the dead won’t stay quiet. As journalist Ivy Holder fans a media firestorm, Maren’s razor-edged intuition—half science, half psychic—points to a local hand guiding the killings for decades, protected by people who write the rules. Greyhaven’s prosperity, its politics, its past—all of it is threaded to a ledger of missing women. To stop a hunter who never retired, Maren must read the echoes in bone, guided by her dead grandmother. Before the town’s next groundbreaking becomes another grave.