One ominous clue after another reveal that Francie possesses something so rare and so valuable that some people are willing to do anything to get it. Everything depends on the small, engraved silver box that she now possesses—if only she can follow its cryptic clues to the whereabouts of her missing mother and understand, finally, just maybe, the truth about who she really is. 

Contents

1. The Wolf

2. The Puzzle Box

3. Snowshoeing

4. The Cabin

5. Strange Lodgings

6. The Apartment

7. At School

8. At the Museum

9. Granddad Interferes

10. School, Then Birch Grove

11. Hiding the Box

12. The Minneapolis Institute of Art

13. Como Park Conservatory

14. A Bit of Down

15. Trouble

16. The Stake-Out

17. More Trouble

18. A Suspicious Death

19. Arizona

20. The Ranch House

21. An Acting Gig

22. Birch Grove

23. The Red Fishhouse

24. Killing of Time

25. A Little Interlude

26. Community Service

27. Loretta’s Cabin

28. Out on the Lake

29. Christmas Evening

Author’s Note

Margi Preus is a New York Times bestselling author of books for young readers, including the Newbery Honor–winning Heart of a Samurai. Among her other novels are Village of Scoundrels, Shadow on the Mountain, West of the Moon, and The Bamboo Sword, as well as the previous two books in the Enchantment Lake series, Enchantment Lake and The Clue in the Trees, which were published by the University of Minnesota Press and received the Midwest Book Award and the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award. She lives in Duluth.