Paris, April 1999: Aimรฉe Leduc has her work cut out for herโrunning her detective agency and fighting off sleep deprivation as she tries to be a good single mother to her new bรฉbรฉ. The last thing she has time for now is to take on a personal investigation for a poor manouche (Gypsy) boy. But he insists his dying mother has an important secret she needs to tell Aimรฉe, something to do with Aimรฉeโs fatherโs unsolved murder a decade ago. How can she say no?
The dying womanโs secret is even more dangerous than her son realized. When Aimรฉe arrives at the hospital, the boyโs mother has disappeared. She was far too sick to leave on her ownโshe must have been abducted. What does she know thatโs so important itโs worth killing for? And will Aimรฉe be able to find her before itโs too late and the medication keeping her alive runs out?