Roger Pyles, forensic expert and part-time crime investigator, is frustrated at finding the wrong bodies just as he's finally getting his long-awaited archaeological dig started. But unexpected corpses will be the least of the problems he'll soon face, professional and personal. "These are the times that will try men's souls," Thomas Paine said. Will Roger succeed against his newest challenges?Great trials can have the seeds of good hidden deep in them. Little can he realize how these untimely troubles will lead to his next great adventure.