

At the conference are authors, would-be authors, agents, fans, publishers, a tabloid journalist, Dubretta Duberstein, who seems to have a special reason for disliking Hattie, and several activists, including Betsy Markham, who is an old friend of Jacqueline’s.Īt the conference dinner, Dubretta, who had a bad heart, collapses and dies, and Jacqueline thinks there is something suspicious about her death.

Jacqueline Kirby, assistant head librarian at Coldwater College, is fed up with life in Nebraska, and heads to New York for a bit of a change, to revisit old haunts, and to attend a convention of historical romance writers organised by the notorious Hattie Foster, top agent. 2011 Harper paperback cover (image from Amazon)
