Holistic healer Indiana Jackson is a free-spirited bohemian, while her brilliant and introverted teenage daughter Amanda is a natural-born sleuth addicted to Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with friends around the world. In this intriguing departure from such historical epics as The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende recounts what happens when Amanda launches her own investigation of a string of strange murders across the city. But the case becomes all too personal when Indiana suddenly vanishes. Could her mother's disappearance be linked to the serial killer? Now, with her mother's life on the line, the young detective must solve the most complex mystery she's ever faced before it's too late.