For over 130 years the Rodger's family has been living under a curse. Now Emma, the last in the bloodline, has returned to her childhood home to settle her grandmother's estate. Emma's mother, to save Emma, had taken her when she was a child and left after her father had died in a grisly accident. Emma might be an archaeologist but never had she searched for remnants of the past so diligently and frantically. Everything seems to be tied into an old headstone that was found on her newly acquired property many years before and the date on the headstone is over a hundred and thirty years old. Who was Mary Devon and what do the cryptic words chiseled into her headstone mean? How did this young woman's headstone end up in a field on the farm she just inherited? What was it she saw the day her father was killed in that horrifying and gruesome accident? What was it her mother and paternal grandmother trying to protect her from. Most of all, why had they both worked to get her back to the farm after their deaths when they had worked so hard to keep her from setting foot on it while they w were alive?When your life depends on you finding a secret buried in a grave but the grave isn't where it should be what do you do? You start digging up answers and they aren't always buried in the dirt. It doesn't help when someone or something is trying to stop you cold and put you in the ground. Emma is learning quick that not only is her life in jeopardy but so are the lives of all the people she loves. What is the secret that may be buried in Emma's own bloodline and will she have to shed her own blood to get the answers? The secrets are buried in the family history and what clues she has are from the recently deceased and you can't wake the dead to ask for more, or can you?Emma will have to draw on all her background to solve this mystery. Can she find the answers to remove the curse or will she be the next one to die a horrific death? She is on borrowed time and something in the house wants her gone and that doesn't mean packing a bag and leaving.