"Hattie Hoffman knows the power of acting. Become whatever people want you to be and they will love you; and when they love you, the power is in your hands. When Hattie is stabbed to death on the opening night of her high school play, Sheriff Del Goodman, who looked on her as a daughter, vows to find the killer. He discovers instead the full extent of Hattie's acting talents. Her shifting identities held their small town in her thrall, and now her death threatens to rip it apart. As more of Hattie's secrets are revealed, and mask after mask is discarded, Del realises the girl he thought he knew was a lie. What he finds out about the true Hattie Hoffman, no one in Pine Valley will ever forget"--Cover