This is a novel about Veronica Mars, the heroine of the cult American television series of the same name, which has won the love of fans around the world. Ten years after graduating from high school in Neptune, California, Veronica Mars returns to the city of sun, sand, crime and corruption. It's spring break, and college students flock to Neptune, turning the beaches and boardwalks into 24-hour parties. When a girl disappears from one such party, Veronica is asked to investigate. But this doesn’t look like a simple kidnapping: the house where the girl disappeared from belongs to people with serious criminal connections, and Veronica has to plunge into the dark world of drugs and organized crime. And when new circumstances of the investigation unexpectedly turn out to be connected with the detective’s past, the case becomes much more personal than she could have imagined.