Novel idea mysteries return with Lila Wilkins, who has just been promoted to full-time literary agent. But great new writers aren't the only people she's trying to catch. Lila Wilkins has it all: the home of her dreams in the charming town of Inspiration Valley, North Carolina; a perfect police officer boyfriend; and a new job she absolutely loves. At the Book and Author Festival, which is sponsored by the Novel Idea Literary Agency, Lila expects to discover some talented new authors, but what she finds instead is the body of an editor to whom she bears an eerie resemblance. Even more troubling, the editor's death isn't the only literary murder. On the heels of the first killing, a blossoming author also meets a murderous end. Suspicious that the two killings may be linked, Lila begins to hunt down the dark figure responsible, and realizes that a hidden manuscript might hold the clue -- if Lila lives long enough to read it ...