Lynn Slaughter is addicted to chocolate, the arts, and her husband’s cooking. She also admits she’s always loved to learn. A graduate of Smith College, she earned master’s degrees in sociology and dance. Following a long career as a professional dancer and educator, she returned to school for her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. She is the author of two previous young adult novels, It Should Have Been You and While I Danced. The ridiculously proud mother of two sons and grandmother of five, she lives in Louisville, Kentucky where she is at work on her next novel. She loves hearing from readers and hopes you’ll visit her website, www.lynnslaughter.com.
When ballerina Lydia Miseau dies onstage in the final dress rehearsal of Romeo and Juliet, homicide detective Caitlin O’Connor is flummoxed. Her investigation uncovers several people who had reasons to kill the ballerina. But the autopsy reveals no apparent cause of death. If she was murdered, who did it, and how?
Sam is appalled when her mom gets engaged to a man whose last heiress wife mysteriously died. And then her life implodes. Her mom’s fiancé turns up dead, and a mountain of circumstantial evidence points to Sam as the killer. With the help of her boyfriend’s dad, an ex-homicide cop, she fights to prove her innocence.