Forsaken: A Derek Rockling Investigation Retired LAPD Captain Derek Rockling has built a quiet second life as a private investigator in Antler Shed, Wyoming - until a descendant's request pulls him into the coldest case he's ever taken. In the winter of 1943, a young Japanese American woman escaped Wyoming's Heart Mountain internment camp during a violent storm and was never seen again. Eighty years later, a routine ground-penetrating radar survey turns up an unmarked grave in exactly the right place, from exactly the right era - and a family allows itself to hope, for the first time in two generations, that the truth might finally surface. Derek doesn't get that luxury. Careful forensic recovery raises more questions than it answers, and as he follows military rosters, ranch records, and a trail of buried correspondence deeper into 1943, the case splits in two: a love story someone spent a lifetime concealing, and a second, more recent grave that someone is still actively protecting. Set against the unhurried scale of the Wyoming high country, Forsaken is a patient, procedural mystery about what people bury to protect the ones they love - and what it costs, decades later, to bring it back into the light without destroying the people left holding it.