Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan uncovers infanticide, murder, and corruption set in the high-stakes, high-danger world of diamond mining. With her old flame, detective Andrew Ryan, and Ollie Hasty from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, she pursues the case to a remote diamond-mining city deep in Canada's Northwest Territories. What they find is more sinister than they could have imagined. 15th in the Temperance Brennan series.