Who was she, this beautiful girl who fell into a deep, unawakenable sleep as soon as she checked into the Los Angeles boarding house? Was she heiress, starlet or religious mystic? For, when the story hit the newspapers, three people claimed she was three different women.

Matt Cuneen, intrigued by the deepening mystery of this modern sleeping beauty, decides to investigate for himself. Painstakingly following a tenuous thread of clues back into the girl's past, he makes some startling discoveries - involving mistaken identity, unscrupulous greed and ultimately, murder...