by Lisa Wingate, 2024, Audiobook narrated by Christine Lakin, Dan Bittner, and Jenna Lamia, Random House Audio

The book is about a woman who is a National Park Service ranger in a fictional national park in Oklahoma in the late 1990’s. She is recently widowed and has a young daughter. She has accepted the assignment to this park to get a fresh start. She becomes curious about some old bones that are discovered in a cave and wonders if they might be related to the disappearance of young Indian children in the area at the beginning of the century. She wonders why there seems to be reluctance to further investigate until she discovers what is actually going on.

The book flips back and forth between the earlier time of the young children and the time of the young woman park ranger. It’s somewhat confusing, but the author ties it all together in the end. The book didn’t fully engage me although I liked the plot, the characters, the setting, and the narration. There just seemed to be something missing for me.