This incredible, yet believable, mystery involves the intrepid Sally, a young career woman shocked by the murder of the father she had never known, a famous anthropologist, just hours after their meeting. Regardless of the threat and disruption to her own life, she decides to delve into the mysterious secret that he had warned her about. Despite the refusal of his archaeologist colleagues to reveal what it was, she travels to far parts of the world, at first intrigued, then at times terrified, until finally, she finds herself the only person left burdened with the truth of their shocking discovery.