This is the new 'E.J Pugh' mystery. Romantic novelist E. J. Pugh is back and in rare form! She has been nominated for a Lady, a coveted award from the American Romance Writers' Association. The convention is to be held in nearby Austin, Texas so E.J. is going and will be sharing a room with bestselling author Maybella LaRue, aka Jane Dawson.Through Jane, E.J. meets a group of mostly well-known writers, all a lot of fun, and all united in their dislike of aspiring but unpublished Angela Barber, the drill sergeant who is in charge of the convention.It should have been a weekend-long party, fun and informative. It should never have resulted in the dead body of one of the participants, found at the bottom of the stairs. After six years of peace, E.J. is again thrown into a crime scene, where the big questions assault her: why, and who did it? And whom can she trust?