Digging Up Bones

Kasia Payne is stuck in the the middle of the afternoon, the middle of September, and the middle of the Utah desert. When you're on your own and penniless by the side of the road and all you can see from where you're sitting is the skeletal remains of a town called Starvation, one thing becomes very clear to you and that is that the middle is no place for a girl to be. With nothing but her thumb and a beat-up backpack, Kasia believes she is up for anything and anyone that will get her one step closer to her ultimate destination of that sweet Georgia coastline, preferably before winter sets in, but in her case, "anything" turns out to be Girl-Friday for a handsome paleontologist at a secluded dig site even further over the edge of Nowhere, and "anyone" happens to include an evil arch-nemesis and his henchmen. To top it all off, her new boss isn't content with mere menial labor, he actually wants her to take a hard look at her life and come to terms with an unhappy past and an uncertain future, and he's not above using the most basic form of discipline to do it. It's going to be a long six weeks for Kasia Payne, and she's got to spend it digging up bones.