1976: Ruth English and her lover Marcus, go missing in Afghanistan during an overland bus trip to Kathmandu. A generation later, Ruth's niece Amber, haunted by the disintegration of her family, determines to get at the truth of their disappearance. Was it murder, as her father suspected, or a suicide pact as the police believed? Tracking down the trip's bus driver, Cassidy, Amber starts to piece together a lost the mystical vibrant - sometimes dangerous - hippy trail to India. As the mystery surrounding her aunt and the charismatic Marcus unfolds, Amber begins a journey of discovery of her own that will lead her not only into the dark secrets of the past but face to face with a tragedy much closer to home. Bonus * Discussion notes for reading groups Interview with the author about her own overland adventure as an 18 year old that inspired the story