Feisty, bubbly, sassy Kate's in trouble again - and this time, Mum decides enough is enough. Kate is going to 'stay out of trouble over the summer holidays, once and for all' by going on a trip with batty Auntie Marg - a photographer, who travels all around the world to dangerous, exotic, exciting places. That's how Kate's ended up here: Iquitos, Peru. The problem is, staying out of trouble just doesn't seem to happen when Kate's around. When Auntie Marg is involved in an accident (only a little bit Kate's fault) Kate has to escape into the Amazon rainforest, with no clothes, no food, no money, and no map. She's got to face spiders, snakes, poisonous plants, legends of evil spirits - and something more dangerous than all those things put together. All she has is Juan, a local boy with a mysterious scar, who's definitely hiding a secret ...