"Maybe Emma Fern didn't have the perfect life, but it was pretty close. Happily married, running her own business and thinking of starting a family, she wasn't looking for anything else. But when by chance Emma meets her favorite writer, the doyenne of crime fiction Beatrice Hodgson-Greene, her life changes beyond anything she could have imagined. The two of them become the best of friends and Emma is quickly drawn into Beatrice's world of wealth and success. Then one day Beatrice asks for a favor. She wants to write in a different genre, something more literary, but not under her own name. She needs someone to be 'the author' of her yet to be published novel. Would Emma be willing? It sounds like fun, and for a while it is, until Emma makes a shocking discovery. Then it's not fun anymore. It's deadly" -- page 4 of cover.