The globe-trotting Fletchers are on a once-in-a-lifetime vacation in magical Madagascar. There, Brandon and his family see many weird and wonderful creatures, including a pair of newly-discovered lemurs nicknamed Romeo and Juliet.

Unfortunately, all is not well in paradise. A day after their discovery, the lemurs disappear, kidnapped to be sold in the international pet trade. Eleven-year-old Brandon has been dropped in the middle of a new mystery!

Solving the mystery won't be easy. The clues are baffling and Brandon soon finds out that the kidnappers are extremely dangerous. To succeed he will need intelligence, courage and luck. And the help of a strange old man with uncanny red eyes.

But time is running out. Where are the missing lemurs?