Pickard, Nancy

Seventeen years after the discovery of a female murder victim near Small Plains, Kansas, the girl's grave has become the source of strange miracles and legends, until the return of prodigal son Mitch Newquist threatens to bring old secrets to light.

Convinced of his father's innocence in the killing of Jody Linder's father, Collin Crosby returns to Kansas with his ex-con father and provokes Jody to face the stunning mystery behind her tragic past.

When Billy Crosby, who was arrested for killing Jody Linder's parents in 1986, is released from prison by his son a lawyer, the two return to Rose, Kansas, where Jody works as a teacher, forcing the Linder family to confront the truth of what had happened twenty-three years earlier.