From USA Today bestselling author Anne Marie Stoddard comes
a frighteningly fashionable mystery that asks the question:
What do zombies, vampires, and beauty pageants have in
common? They're all about to make Kaley Kalua's life a
waking nightmare…
Happy Hula Boutique manager, Kaley, is excited to celebrate
Halloween with her friends at Aloha Lagoon's upcoming
Alohaween Festival—that is, until her Aunt Rikki drags her
to a ghoul-themed beauty pageant to cheer on her longtime
nemesis, Harmony Kane. The competition is stiff, and things
turn deadly when the winner is found staked with her own
scepter and stuffed inside a coffin on one of the floats for
the annual Halloween parade.
Kaley is even more shocked when she receives a call from
Harmony, begging her to prove that she didn't kill the
woman. She reluctantly accepts, and with the help of her
pal, Jamie, and the oh-so-tempting resort lifeguard, Noa,
Kaley delves into the mysterious circumstances surrounding
the beauty queen's ghastly murder. Did a scorned pageant
contender take out the competition, or does one of the
judges have something to hide? It seems nearly everyone has
a skeleton in their closet, and someone wants theirs to stay
buried. Kaley finds herself in the killer's cross-hairs,
and if she doesn't uncover the truth soon, she may wind up
in a coffin of her own.