Airtight Case - 9781581821239

In a seemingly random event, forensic anthropologist Lindsay Chamberlain is attacked and left for dead. Buried in a shallow grave in the woods, she manages to escape, although she suffers from amnesia as a result of the ordeal.
When Lindsay's memory returns, it is incomplete. She tries to ignore the trauma and leave the matter to the authorities, but their investigation quickly comes to a dead end.
The assault looms over her peace of mind like a dark cloud when Lindsay joins an excavation at an 1830s farm site on the edge of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. Unlike previous digs where she has worked, this site is not a happy one. Crew members are on edge and argumentative, and the site director exhibits an instant dislike toward Lindsay. Complicating matters even more, the principal investigator is under suspicion of murdering a local resident and stealing valuable papers from her. Meanwhile, lodging for the crew is in a haunted house, and even though Lindsay is the only one who doesn't believe in ghosts, she is the only one who sees them.
When very old sealed lead coffins dating from the 1700s are discovered, Lindsay focuses so intently on the discovery that she is distracted momentarily from her own troubles. Her excitement, however, is short-lived, for inside one of the caskets are the disturbing remains of a woman who has something frighteningly in common with Lindsay. When one of the crew disappears, no one but Lindsay seems to worry or care. If she fails to figure out what's happening around her, she might lose her sanity, or worse, her life.