Aim�e Leduc is happy her long-time business partner Ren� has found a girlfriend. Really, she is. It�s not her fault if she can�t suppress her doubts about the relationship; Ren� is moving way too fast, and Aim�e�s instincts tell her Meizi, this supposed love of Ren��s life, isn�t trustworthy. And her misgivings may not be far off the mark: Meizi disappears during a Chinatown dinner to take a phone call and never comes back to the restaurant. Minutes later, the body of a young man, a science prodigy and volunteer at the nearby Mus�e, is found shrink-wrapped in an alleyway�with Meizi�s photo in his wallet.Aim�e does not like this scenario one bit, but she can�t figure out how the murder is connected to Meizi�s disappearance. The dead genius was sitting on a discovery that has France�s secret service keeping tabs on him. Now they�re keeping tabs on Aim�e. A missing young woman, an illegal immigrant raid in progress, botched affairs of the heart, dirty policemen, the French secret service, cutting-edge science secrets and a murderer on the loose�what has she gotten herself into? And can she get herself�and her friends�back out of it all alive?