A family reunion. A storm-battered mansion. A murder that’s as glamorous as it is grisly.
Harper Finch owns a seaside bookshop, but her new mystery is no fiction. Gloria Astor—the silver screen legend and Harper’s step-aunt—hosts the reunion. The guests? A cast of suspects, each with a motive sharper than a dagger. As the storm rages outside, Gloria is found dead in her silk and diamonds.
Deputy Trey is all caution tape and earnest charm. Harper is all nosy questions and impossible curiosity. Together, they uncover heirlooms, old grudges, and the kind of family secrets that don’t gather dust. Everyone hides something. Everyone blames someone and very clue is a misdirect in a mansion built on lies.
As Harper lands right in the middle of a mystery with a deadly twist and a ticking clock. She knows only this. Every family hides a rotten apple but tonight, the core is pure poison.