SARAHN_12 begins with a murder--a grisly reality that has left Sarah Nilson bereft and consumed with finding her fiance's killer. Three months after his death, the case has reached a standstill, and Sarah is methodically searching for any clue that might unlock the stagnant investigation, including the password to his Second Life account. Once she is able to log on, she discovers that his avatar was murdered two days before his real life murder--a coincidence too real to ignore. Sarah begins her own investigation in Second Life and is soon pulled into a world where fantasy mirrors reality and the boundary between the two is sometimes hard to find.