A winter vacation at Butter Ridge ski resort becomes an exercise in fear as Nancy tries to unravel the secrets of the main lodge, a French castle rebuilt in Wisconsin.
Frank and Joe fight for their lives when they find the plane carrying a man who has connections to vital national security information has been sabotaged.
Someone is rigging the boats slated to race in the Northeast National Offshore competition, and with so many lives at stake, Joe and Frank Hardy rev up their own engines to find the saboteur.
While staying with her elderly relative at Winterbloom, Jo tries to solve the mysteries that haunt this strange old house situated in the midst of New Hampshire woods.
On the Scottish island of Skua, a friendship develops between lonely and mysterious Perdita and a blind girl and her brother as the threesome look for rare orchids, explore the island caves, and meet up with jewel thieves.