When Minna Langfeld established Migdal Binah - a new boarding school for girls in the English countryside - she knew she would have to cope with all sorts of out-of-the-ordinary problems. It was 1947, only two years after the war that devastated Europe, and among her students were war orphans and refugees with widely varying backgrounds, as well as girls whose schools had been destroyed in the Blitz, including her own teenaged daughter, Etty. But she never dreamed she would have to deal with a kidnapping!

Trying to keep the peace between Mrs. Hoffman, the schooľ's Hungarian cook, and Miss Zemmel, the German house mother, requires some delicate diplomacy. But when two students disappear under mysterious circumstances, all personal differences are set aside as everyone pulls together to help find the missing girls. Mrs. Langfeld notifies the local police, while Etty, anxious to prove herself, tries to solve the mystery on her own. Soon she finds herself in over her head, as a nefarious kidnapping plot unfolds.

In this exciting novel, Eva Vogiel once again demonstrates her superb writing skills, weaving Torah lessons into an action-packed mystery that keeps the reader guessing from beginning to end. The exuberant heroine and the many unusual characters that populate this book are all realistically portrayed, and the complex plot is full of surprises.