Cynthia Graham has just found out her grandmother has left her a red diamond from Ama Dablam in her inheritance. With the diamond are letters from Sandy Irvine, one of the famous climbers on the fated 1924 Everest climb. Meanwhile, Dorje’s family’s climbing business is losing money, and rumors are going around about a new smuggling gang run by a man named the Foreigner. When Cynthia decides to follow in her grandfather’s footsteps and go on a climbing trip to Ama Dablam, evil seems to follow her there. Little does she know, the Foreigner is after her too.

Strange Karma by Willow Healy is, in her own words, "a mystery/thriller set in two eras: 1920s England and Tibet, and the present-day Himalayan mountains." The book opens in 1924 on the cusp of the thrilling British expedition to climb Mt. Everest. One of the main characters from 1924 has a mysterious connection to the main character in the present day. We meet Cynthia Graham in a lawyer's office in England as she is sorting out a surprising inheritance from a grandmother she never met. She soon discovers a deeper mystery surrounding her grandmother and the Mt.