Oklahoma, 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn't have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards. When the older girl disappears, Ollie flees to the woods, taking six-year-old Nessa with her. Oklahoma, 1990. Law enforcement ranger Valerie Boren-Odell is faced with local controversy over the park's opening, a teenage hiker gone missing, and the long-hidden burial site of three children unearthed in a cave. Val's quest for the truth soon collides with old secrets and the tragic and deadly history of the land itself.
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