October 1998, just outside the dying town of Tinsbury, West Virginia. Luna follows a blood trail from an old hunting lease into a dry creek bed where she finds what looks like a human hand. The bones are arranged in a spiral, each one clean, no flesh, no smell. She calls it in, waits with the sheriff's deputy until dawn, and watches the county coroner bag them. But the hand is missing a finger, and the local tracker tells her something that keeps her awake for weeks: the bones were placed there recently, not buried, not scattered by animals, but laid out by someone who knew exactly what they were doing. A quiet, bone-deep story about what gets left behind, and what decides to stay.