Anna is a 30-year-old bureaucrat who has her life well under control. But after her mother dies in an accident, Anna discovers that her father is actually her stepfather.
Shockingly, some letters she finds among her mother’s possessions tell her that her biological father was a Frenchman who died in Nepal under mysterious circumstances before Anna was born. Her mother, the most harmless, boringly middle-class woman on Earth, was in Nepal? She soon finds out her mother joined a hippie commune in the 70s and made her way to Asia in a Volkswagen van.
To find out more, Anna travels to Katmandu. She soon meets some people who were friends with her parents back then, and she joins them on a trek into the mountains. But she soon finds herself a pawn in a game involving poaching and other criminal schemes. By the time she realizes that it all centers on a legendary snow leopard that lives in a secluded valley in the Himalayas, Anna is already in grave danger…
by Steffanie Burow
3-426-50659-9
512 pages, September 2010
