Publisher's Synopsis
A local drama teacher is found dead with a makeup tube duct taped into her mouth.Everyone is devastated, especially Kiana Smith, co-author of the most recent production intended to raise money for the floundering drama program.
Although her own community theater is in the midst of its next production, Angie Deacon agrees to help out.But the principal announces she'll be working on the case. Since she and Detective Colby Jarvis' near-death experience in a recent case, she's sworn to leave investigating to the professionals. Angie thinks the gene that produced maternal instinct is missing from her DNA. Until she meets Kiana Smith: beautiful, personable, and...grieving, because her mentor has been murdered.
And it becomes impossible NOT to help find the killer,
especially when it seems that every teen and teacher in the school is supposedly trying to help out. Can she unravel the clues before the police close down the school play?
And before her own theater production fails?
