The best-selling, critically acclaimed author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency continues the story of Mma "Precious" Ramotswe. Now engaged, Mma Ramotswe must contend with the hostility of her fiancé's unscrupulous maid, who is not pleased with the new arrangement. Then an American woman asks for help to learn the truth behind her son's disappearance in Africa, and Mma Ramotswe has all the troubles she can handle.