Anthropologist Kate Lockwood wants to excavate the ancient burial mound on Grant Mason's family land, but when he refuses, she suspects he is hiding something.
Grant, as head of their pals and the older of the Mason boys, had had first choice of the awesome things they'd seen in the dim depths of the mound, under the timbered roof that held the earth above their heads.
Let the dead stay dead.
Despite a traumatic childhood in Cold Creek' Ohio' the Lockwood sisters have reunited there for the wedding of youngest sister Tess to the town's sheriff.
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