The Great Lakes High School Press Association is convening at the River Heights Atrium Hotel, a luxury palace of marble and glass. But for Nancy it's turning into a house of sabotage and suspicion. Someone has targeted the beautiful, Italian-born student Gina Fiorella for harm... and she's targeted Ned Nickerson for romance! Gina's father is a man of immense wealth and political power, and she may be the victim of one of his numerous enemies. But the more Nancy investigates, the deeper the mistery becomes. Behind the hotel's magnificent facade lurks a tangle of secret ambitions - sinister desires that could prove fatal. Not only for Gina, but to Nancy as well!