The discovery of a human skeleton and a red rucksack amongst the roots of a fallen tree jolts memories for DI Wesley Peterson: a hitch hiker who went missing in 2008 and was never found. Meanwhile in the small Devon village of Petherham a famous TV psychic is the main attraction at a supernatural weekend. But when the psychic dies in suspicious circumstances Wesley discovers a connection between the dead man and the vanished hitch hiker. But was he responsible for her murder? Or has a shady organisation called The Burial Circle been revived in the present day?

Part of the The Wesley Peterson Series series.