"When a body is found in a bog in northwest England, Agnes, an American forensic anthropologist, is called to investigate. Though its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand years ago, it is almost completely preserved. Soon Agnes is drawn into a mystery from the distant past, called to understand and avenge the death of an Iron Age woman. Along the way, she must contend with peat-cutters who want to profit from the bog and activists who demand that the land be left undisturbed. As Agnes faces the deep history of what she has unearthed, she's also forced to question what she thought she knew about her talent, her self-reliance, and her place in the world."--