Elizabeth is incredibly good at playing with words and solving puzzles. But will that be enough to decipher the coded messages waiting for her at the Winterhaus Hotel? And why was she sent there in the first place? After all, she has recently discovered unusual powers within herself. This story has all the ingredients one could wish for in a special book filled with winter atmosphere: a shady couple, a nice hotel owner with a long lineage, giant puzzles and coded messages, a sensational library and a magical book, ghostly apparitions, and great excursions into the snowy landscape. And in the middle of it all is Elizabeth, who is searching for a good friend and does not know her parents.