The first Trace and Boz adventure! Five years before the eerie events of THE CURSE OF JACOB TRACY, Jacob and his new trail partner, John Bosley, take a job leading a pack of paleontologists out to the Badlands near Hell Creek, Montana, to dig for the bones of extinct monsters. It's a dangerous job, not only is the area home to warring tribes of Indians, but a rival camp of bone-diggers is right across the creek and some of them may be willing to commit murder to score a scientific coup. But what worries Jacob most are the voices he hears in the rocks. They call to the dangerous psychic power in him, reminding Jacob that the past is never entirely dead, and anything that has slept for eons is bound to wake up hungry...