When state archaeologists lift the lid on a suspicious trunk buried in Nantucket's landfill, Detective John Jarad's world explodes. DNA holds the key to the island's most notorious cold case crime, the Baby Alice Spenser kidnapping of 1921. Myriad family scandals emerge from the Spenser's privileged and gilded past. Events flare white-hot when a copycat kidnapper snatches a second child.