15 year old Annabelle has to move to Africa when her mom is murdered. Annabelle does not want to go, though, because all of her friends are already in Chicago where she lives. However, because she always feels like a happy family and normal life is too good to be true, she feels that something like that can not happen to her. How will she cope with her mom's murder? Who could have done something like that? Will moving to Africa with her dad be so bad?