When a woman’s skeleton is discovered in the New Mexico desert, FBI Agent Corrie Swanson is called to investigate. The victim’s final moments are a mystery. She stripped her clothes, walked into the sun, and died clutching ancient lightning stones once used to summon gods. Suicide or sacrifice?
To uncover the truth, Corrie teams up with archaeologist Nora Kelly, whose expertise in ancient rituals uncovers a chilling possibility. When another body appears under the same eerie circumstances, the line between history and horror begins to blur.
In a landscape of haunted ruins and buried secrets, something long dormant has awakened. From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Badlands delivers a pulse-pounding mystery steeped in ancient terror.
