When Glacier Park trails laborer Clancy Dyer discovers her coworker Ezra missing and his tent apparently shredded by a grizzly bear, she alerts the ranger who mounts a search that unearths a growing tangle of misdeeds and betrayals. Set amidst Glacier’s fierce beauty, "Baited" grapples with grief, suspicious deaths, differing ideas about the protection of Glacier’s grizzly bears, and especially how to reconcile one’s love and affection for a person who has committed a reprehensible act.