Stabbing Stephanie
Overview
Literary agent Jane Stuart has finally decided to crawl out from under her pile of manuscripts
and take a much-needed vacation when she gets a surprise call from her late husband's cousin,
Stephanie, asking if she can stay for a few days. Jane reluctantly agrees—after all, it is
Thanksgiving, and Stephanie is taking an editor's job at a hot new publishing house, run by
Shady Hills' own jet-setter, Faith Carson, and her dashing businessman husband, Gavin Hart.
Besides, Stephanie has promised to use Winky as the model for their latest cat book cover. But
no sooner has Stephanie unpacked her file folders than it becomes clear that something rotten
is going on in the pedigreed halls of Carson & Hart, Inc.—and not just the dreck list of socialite
biographies they're publishing. When Stephanie is found in a Dumpster with a knife in her back,
Jane goes undercover at the company to find a killer who doesn't care much for editorializing.
Playing the part of an editor isn't easy for Jane, especially when the list of murder suspects is
growing faster than the stack of submissions on her overburdened desk. Faith may act like the
Jackie O of Shady Hills, but the royal pain has a less-than-regal temper . . . and plenty of
shocking secrets to hide. Gavin's upper-crust demeanor is at odds with the scandalous rumors
about his womanizing. Even poor Stephanie may have been less of a victim and more of a
backstabbing, pathological liar. As wild as things seem, Jane knows the truth is out there, and it
may be closer than she realizes.