In 1981 Kerry Grant
walked across the dark stage in Casimir Pulaski High School
auditorium. She had planned to meet Shayna at four to start building
sets for the next play, but her English
class ran long. Kerry yelled for Shayna, but no one answered her
from the darkness.
As she felt her way
along the left wing curtain on the stage, Kerry wondered why all the
lights were out. She moved cautiously through the quiet until her foot hit what she thought
was a sandbag. The lights burst on and people began to scream. Lying
on the stage at Kerry's feet was the unmoving body of Shayna Donovan.
Twenty-five years
later Kerry and Jennifer Kincaid return to the South Side of
Chicago for their high school reunion. Kerry runs into an old
friend, Lisa Whitaker. She wants Kerry to meet her on the stage where she
can prove Shayna’s death was not an accident as the police called
it. With the auditorium bathed in the same blackness she experienced
the last time she stepped foot in it, Kerry moves slowly across the
stage. When her foot hits something, she knows immediately it is not a sandbag. Lisa
lies dead on the almost exact same spot as Shayna. Someone at the reunion killed her, and probably
killed Shayna. She intends to find out who, and why.
Old friends and
enemies from a lifetime ago help and hinder Kerry's search for
Lisa's killer. Telemarketing scams and attempts on her life slow
her down, but don't stop her. With the help of old friends, and a
few new ones, she finds the killer and manages to barely escape with
her life.
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