The children's lecture and slide show of Japanese Prints was an enjoyable end to the opening exhibit of Oriental Prints and Scrolls that Sara had mounted for a northern California university's art gallery. The next day she returned to the small Oriental Art Museum in Santa Barbara, where she was a curator, to find a detective from the Pasadena Police waiting to inform her of a burglary and assault at her godparents oriental arts company and to ask her help with determining the inventory. Their investigation uncovered a pattern of complicated and frightening background facts about the people and the pieces of Ancient art that she had been surrounded with all of her life.