Three graves have been opened.

Not vandalized. Not dug up at random.

Opened—and left empty.

When a local mortician brings the problem to Scott Jarvis, it looks like a contained job. That changes when one of the graves is revealed to belong to Lieutenant Sharon Nolen's father… buried under a different name.

As Jarvis and Lisa Gonzalez start pulling at the threads, the case doesn't widen—it tightens. The same names recur. The same places. And the same kind of resistance, from people who shouldn't be working together but clearly are.

A cemetery guard turns up dead.

Rick Eagle Feather—an old friend of Sharon's father, and one of the few men who might know what's really going on—calls Jarvis for help… and disappears after a violent encounter.

Then the politics surface.

Two powerful figures are quietly maneuvering for control of a vast stretch of the Everglades and the Ten Thousand Islands. On paper, it's about preservation.

In practice, it intersects with everything Jarvis is already digging into.

Because long before Florida had borders, an ancient people called the the Calusa controlled that land.

And something connected to them is still out there.

Something people are willing to kill for.

The deeper Jarvis goes, the harder it becomes to separate past from present—or to keep the investigation from turning into something far more personal... and deadly... than it ever should have been.