In the rugged landscape of Eastern Oregon, a young scientist named June uncovers an exquisite artifact -- a 300-year-old mechanical doll whose existence seems to validate her obsession with a harrowing story she was told by her grandfather many years earlier. The mechanical doll, June believes, is proof of a living race of automatons that walk undetected among us to this day. Ingeniously hidden inside the ancient doll is a lost message addressed to...

Dr. Temperance Brenna, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, is in the middle of identifying the bones of a nun, dead for over a century, who is now a candidate for sainthood, when she is pulled away to investigate a bigger mystery involving the twisted corpses found at a burning chalet.

Despite a traumatic childhood in Cold Creek, Ohio, the Lockwood sisters have reunited there for the wedding of youngest sister Tess to the town's sheriff. Maid of honor Kate Lockwood is determined to break through best man Grant Mason's defenses. An anthropologist, Kate makes her living studying the dead ... A large burial mound sits on Mason family land, and Kate wants permission to excavate. But Grant refuses and tells Kate to stay away from the...