In the second brilliant, action-packed book in the Charlotte Holmes series, Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are within a chase across European countries to untangle an internet of shocking truths about the Holmes and Moriarty families.

Jamie and Charlotte are looking for a wintertime break reprieve in Sussex after a fall semester that nearly got them killed. But nothing about their period off is proving basic, including Holmes and Watson’s developing feelings for each other.

When Charlotte’s beloved Uncle Leander goes missing in the Holmes estate-after getting oddly private on the subject of his newest assignment inside a German artwork forgery ring-the game is afoot once more, and Charlotte throws herself right into a search for answers.

So begins a dangerous competition through the gritty underground picture in Berlin and glittering artwork homes in Prague, where Holmes and Watson find that this complicated case may change everything they find out about their families, themselves, and each other.