Um grupo de arqueólogos está em busca de um tesouro perdido e, para isso, explora o desconhecido labirinto de ossos nas catacumbas abaixo de Paris. Aquela região, conhecida como a cidade dos mortos, revela um segredo que mexerá com a psique humana de modo que os demônios pessoais de cada um voltarão para assombrá-los.

While hosting the annual gathering of the Association for the Study of American Archaeology at Kenzer College, Emma Fielding is thrust into the midst of a murder mystery when the President of her organization is poisoned on the eve of announcing her successor. With many of the leading archaeologists present having expressed their entitlement to the presidency prior to the murder, Emma and FBI pal Jim Conner have plenty of likely suspects from which to choose.

In summer 2003, when the heatwave hit in Europe, in Switzerland, the glacier below the Schnidejoch pass, released a mysterious object: a piece of a Neolithic quiver.