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Meet Samantha Beck and Rebecca Nishatwo women born twentyfive years and hundreds of miles apart yet joined together by a shocking family ritual When Samantha discovers the remains of an ancient tribe in Pennsylvania she expects to at last prove her grandmothers Native American ancestry and to make a name for herself as a budding archaeologist She does not expect to make an enemy and a lover of a fellow descendantson of Rebecca Nishawho unwittingly wears a necklace made of his dead mothers bones As the novel unfolds alternating between Samanthas story and Rebeccas twentyfive years before Samantha becomes more and more determined to discover the devastating mystery that estranged Rebeccas wealthy Pennsylvania Dutch father from her halfNative American son Samantha gradually uncovers a troubling secret and decides to risk everythinglove and careerto restore harmony to Rebeccas family