Mia Walker would seem the unlikeliest of heroines. She expects, after being hired as docent at The Chicago Art Institute, to live a quiet life in her Ravenswood apartment, lecturing on impressionist paintings, and sending money home to her aged father on his farm in Georgia. But things do not work out this way. Invited to give a presentation at a mysterious mansion filled with wealthy art lovers and priceless paintings missing for decades, Mia finds herself inexorably drawn into the shadowy...and dangerous...world of international art smuggling.