In May of 1890, Enola Holmes is finally fully on her own and, no longer
hiding from her older brothers Sherlock and Mycroft, attending classes
and occasionally pursuing her chosen profession as a scientific
perditorian, a finder of lost things and people.
Wolcott Balestier, the representative of an American book publisher,
arrived in London on a singular mission - to contract with English
authors for their latest works. When Balestier disappears on the streets
of London one day, his great friend - Rudyard Kipling - bursts into
Enola's office looking for help in finding him. Brash and unwilling to
hire a young woman, instead he turns to Sherlock Holmes. Convinced that
evil has befallen Balestier, at the hands of rival American publishers
who pirate the works of English authors, he sets the elder Holmes on the
trail.
But Enola is not one to accept defeat, especially not to her brother,
and sets off on her own - determined to learn the truth behind the
disappearance of the young American. Can book publishing truly be so
ruthless and deadly or can the missing man be rescued from his apparent
fate and returned to his friends and loved ones?
The redoubtable Enola is determined to do just that, even if it means
working with her brother Sherlock!