Me: Lucas Swain—I"m nearly sixteen years old and live in London. I was fairly normal until the night I found Violet. Then everything changed. The Missing: Dad. He disappeared five years ago. Nobody knows what happened to him, and nobody cares except me. It"s enough to drive you crazy. The Dead: That"s Violet . . . in the urn. Speaking of crazy—I know she"s trying to tell me something, and I think it"s about my father. . . . A dead lady may not be much to go on, but my dad"s out there somewhere, and it"s up to me to find out where.