Archway, Simon & Schuster, 2000
ISBN: 0-7434-0030-5 $4.99/ $6.99 (Can)
"You promised you'd visit
me," Liza reminds Jenny in her last phone message, just
hours before Liza is found murdered. The following summer
seventeen-year-old Jenny feels as if her sister is still
waiting for her in Wisteria. Though Jenny gets terrible stage
fright, she enrolls in the same theater camp. There, in a
college's darkened theater, in the shadows of the dorm room
that Liza once occupied, and beneath the bridge where Liza's
body was found, Jenny begins to share her sister's last days.
It's a drama starring Brian the stage manager, who follows
Jenny everywhere; dangerously attractive Mike, with whom Liza
was in love; Paul, who is still obsessed with Liza; Keri, who
was intensely jealous of her; motherly, but suffocating
assistant director Maggie; and Walker, the director, bristling
with hostility and resentment against Jenny's and Liza's
famous father. Before the drama ends, Jenny discovers terror
that reaches beyond the glare of stage lights to a dark place
where the plot is real--and deadly.
(Not reviewed/released at
the time of this posting.)

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