Adventure has a new name ... Jericho Miles!16-year-old Jericho Miles' father, famous archaeologist Roger Miles, disappears in his small plane over the desert of Utah and Arizona. Thought dead, Jericho discovers a coded message from her father that makes her belief that he is alive and searching for the fabled Fortress of Diamonds. But he's not the only one - crazed billionaire and wannabe vampire Viktor Gregorovich is in pursuit of the Fortress of Diamonds as well, believing it holds to the key to great mystical power and the secret of the disappearance of the Anasazi. With her father's graduate student, Ashley McGregor, Jeri and Ash follow a series of coded messages in a race against time to rescue her father and discover the Fortress of Diamonds before Viktor Gregorovich and his crazed band of followers get there first!