A work crew for a telecommunications company is having a routine day digging ground to lay new cable – until the backhoe uncovers human remains. The supervisor of the crew is Sally Nimitz' fiancé, George Thomas.
Three years earlier a rebellious seventeen year old girl ran away from home to go to California with her boyfriend. It doesn't take long to establish one of the two sets of bones unearthed are hers.
Will the local authorities find out what happened? Stacey's family have their doubts. Sally, George, and the third member of their sleuthing team are asked to make sure they do.