A Renaissance fair is coming to the relatively quiet college
town of Farberville, Arkansas, which is not the sort of news
that usually sets local bookseller Claire Malloy's heart
racing. But with Caron, Claire's perpetually petulent
teenage daughter, being pulled into volunteering (either
that or face the horror of doing homework over the summer)
and her fiance, Police Lieutenant Peter Rosen, away, Claire
finds herself drawn into the strange inner workings of the
group putting on the fair.
But just as Claire decides that her time might be better
spent fretting over the details of her upcoming nuptials,
one of the volunteers helping with the Ren fair falls victim
to arson, her body found burned in the wreckage of her
rented home. Even stranger, none of the members of the local
chapter of the Association for Renaissance Scholarship and
Enlightenment (ARSE)--the group putting on Farberville's
first Ren fair--has ever met the woman in the flesh, and
none can provide any information about who she is or where
she came from. However, someone is definitely dead, and the
fire looks very suspicious--but is it murder?
When the fair opens, tensions expose the dark secrets and
malevolent schemes that lurk beneath the superficial
congeniality of the ARSE members. The lords are leaping, the
ladies are lying, and the knights are fighting--while
someone is committing murder most heinous. And with Claire's
dreams of a blissful wedding hanging in the balance, she has
no choice but to fling herself into the battle and match
wits with the killer.
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