After stealing a million in investment cash, a desperate robber commandeers a hot air balloon at the local exposition, only to be lost in a raging storm. The balloon was tracked to a high mountain area before going down. When Police Chief McGinnis refuses to take Nancy on the recovery effort, she and the girls stowaway with the investment bankers, also climbing the mountain, in an effort to recover their funds.

Nancy finds herself investigating a disappearance--and mixed up with a crime lord--in India when Kalpana, a technical support operator she befriended over the phone, calls her mysteriously at three in the morning and goes missing.

When the dolls in Emma Blavatsky's antique dollhouse start depicting crimes that come true, Nancy is on the case and becomes even more worried when the dolls depict her murder.