Meet Samantha Beck and Rebecca Nishaâtwo women born twenty-five years and hundreds of miles apart, yet joined together by a shocking family ritual. When Samantha discovers the remains of an ancient tribe in Pennsylvania, she expects to at last prove her grandmotherâs Native American ancestry and to make a name for herself as a budding archaeologist. She does not expect to make an enemy and a lover of a fellow descendantâson of Rebecca Nishaâwho unwittingly wears a necklace made of his dead motherâs bones. As the novel unfolds, alternating between Samanthaâs story and Rebeccaâs twenty-five years before, Samantha becomes more and more determined to discover the devastating mystery that estranged Rebeccaâs wealthy Pennsylvania Dutch father from her half-Native American son. Samantha gradually uncovers a troubling secret and decides to risk everythingâlove and careerâto restore harmony to Rebeccaâs family.