"Diving headlong into her graduate work in Queensland, Australia, studying spectacled fruit bats, Annabel Mendelssohn spends her free time picking leeches from her eyes, discovering waterfalls, and E-mailing her sister, Alice, who has settled for the more domesticated science of grant administration. Aside from occasional fears that loggers will terrorize her camp, all is going according to plan until Annabel's mentor, the enigmatic Professor John Goode, suddenly disappears.

Haunted by the ambiguous circumstances surrounding her own brother's death two years earlier, Annabel becomes determined to find the missing man.".

"Meanwhile, Professor Goode's son, Leon, leaves his teaching job in a Boston museum to conduct a search of his own. It isn't the first time he's had to follow in his meandering father's footsteps, trying to catch a glimpse of what paths, and companions, he's chosen. Only this time, Leon fears, his efforts may be in vain - his father, it seems, has simply vanished.".

"Annabel and Leon soon cross paths, and together, in the vibrant and unruly rain forest, they try to unravel the mystery of John Goode's disappearance. But, as they soon come to realize, sometimes the truth reveals itself in more ways than one."--BOOK JACKET.