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USA Today bestseller and multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian presents Tempest Raj and her gang of sleuths for another exciting Secret Staircase Mystery.

Tempest, now living in her childhood bedroom after her career as a Las Vegas stage illusionist fell apart the previous summer, receives a midnight call to meet the man who tried to kill his wife before blaming the near miss on a staircase built by her father and threatening the family business with an expensive lawsuit. He demands Tempest meet him at the abandoned theater, and when a worried Tempest arrives, the man is dead, pinned to the theater’s door by a sword launched from an apparent booby trap. Police and EMTs arrive to investigate, and another blade and booby trap wound an EMT. Troubles mount when a note is found pinned to the door, written by Tempest herself….

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