A human skeleton is the last thing Thea Campbell and fiance Paul Hudson expect to find buried in their own yard. Neither do they expect the town of Snohomish, Washington to erupt with excitement over a fictional pirate treasure the dead man is rumored to be guarding. This is obviously an old murder, and the police need to solve it. Unfortunately, the disappearance of the bones hardly slows down local excitement as family and friends abandon any good sense they previously possessed. Some hold a seance, hoping for guidance to the treasure from the hereafter. Others take a more straightforward approach and dig up Thea's yard with an unwavering persistence. Someone, however, has not forgotten the decades-old crime, and that someone wants all the evidence destroyed, no matter the cost."