Babasının ortadan kaybolmasından yedi yıl sonra 21 yaşındaki Lara, küresel ticaret imparatorluğunun başına geçmeyi reddetmiş ve üniversitede ders alırken bir yandan da Londra'da bir bisiklet kuryesi olarak çalışmaktadır. Ancak ortaya çıkan yeni bir antik eser sonucu babasının kayboluşunu araştırmaya başlar ve son gittiği yeri ziyaret eder: Japonya kıyılarında bir yerde bulunan gizemli bir adadaki bir mezar. Birdenbire Lara kendini yalnızca keskin zekası, dirayeti ve inatçı ruhuyla silahlanmış bir halde, dezavantajlı bir durumda olduğu bir maceranın içinde bulur. Lara bilinmeyene doğru yolculuk ederken kendi sınırlarının ötesine geçmeyi de öğrenmelidir.

The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores the money in his father's household safe. The slatternly housekeeper, aware of the money, enlists a criminal acquaintance to crack the safe. She attempts to get into the adjacent room where the sisters tremble in fear, but finds that the door is locked. The drunken housekeeper menaces them by brandishing a gun through a hole in the wall.

Jean Evans of an international wildlife foundation, who is known to Africa as 'the Panther Girl' because of her bravery in jungle living, stumbles on a plot by a mad scientist to frighten the natives out of a diamond-laden district by chemically growing crayfish to giant size, and enlists the aid of a game hunter friend to prevent a monster rampage and bring the culprits to justice.

Lally is a rich girl whose father writes books and plays polo. After 23 years of marriage her father decides to divorce Lally's mother and remarry to soon-to-be-divorced Beth Cheever. This sours Lally on all men. While on vacation with her mother she meets Jack, who succeeds in stealing her heart. Then Lally discovers that Jack is the son of Beth Cheever, the woman who is to marry her father.