Southern California is where dreams come trueâor so Scarlett Gardner thought. When she moved there and opened the Palm Trees and Page Turners bookshop, she thought her boyfriend and business partner would be part of the story. When he leaves her for a better job, Scarlett finds herself struggling to keep her new business afloat. And thatâs not the only thing she has to worry aboutâshe discovers something underneath the pier by her bookshop that she didnât outline for her lifeâs story: the dead body of a book-buying customer. After Scarlett gives a statement to the police, she thinks her life can go back to business as usual. But when a lawyer, representing someone named Lorelai Knight, tells Scarlett that she now stands to inherit a small fortune, sheâs left with more questions than answers. Before she can make sense of any of it, the police bring her in for questioningâthe body she found was Lorelai Knightâand the evidence they have against Scarlett doesnât look good. Business is booming as Scarlett returns to Palm Trees and Page Turners, but for all the wrong reasons: curious tourists donât want books; they want a glimpse of the Bookshop Killer. Who could really be behind all of this? And why frame Scarlett? To clear her name, sheâs going to have get creativeâand hope she can remain one page ahead of the killer.