A body in a derelict barn pulls park ranger Ruth Baker into a town that buries its secrets deep. The deeper she digs, the more the quiet land starts to feel like it's watching back.
Snowed in at the edge of the wilderness, Ruth Baker finds the cabin's last guest never made it out. With the only road closing fast, the cold isn't the deadliest thing waiting in the dark.
A remote retreat promises healing to the broken, but the people who check in are starting to disappear. Ruth Baker goes looking for answers in a place where everyone has a reason to lie.
An old ranch with a name the locals won't say out loud gives up its dead after decades of silence. Ruth Baker reopens a wound the whole valley wanted to stay buried.
The town calls itself a refuge, a place where the hunted come to be forgotten. Ruth Baker arrives to find the safest place on the map keeping the darkest kind of secret.
Every autumn the valley gathers for the harvest, and every few years someone never comes home. Ruth Baker digs into a tradition that's been feeding on its own people for generations.
Behind the iron gates of a sealed-off estate, the wealthy keep their sins as private as their grounds. When Ruth Baker is locked inside with them, getting out means knowing who to fear.
The orchard's trees grow heavy and red over ground no one will till. Ruth Baker learns what the roots have been drinking, and why the family that owns it never sells a single acre.
Out where there are no cameras and no witnesses, a rusted barrel is where evidence goes to vanish. Ruth Baker pulls something out of the ash that someone killed to keep burning.
A circle of small-town women bond over true-crime podcasts — until the cases stop being someone else's. Rangers Baker and Tate close in on a killer who's done listening and started practicing.