Zara is 18 when she’s offered the lead role in a Broadway play called Echo and Ariston. When death happens on the set, Zara is left guessing if it’s a murder, an accident, or a curse.
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Publisher’s Description
Debuting on the New York stage, Zara is unprepared—for Eli, the girl who makes the world glow; for Leopold, the director who wants perfection; and for death in the theater.
Zara Evans has come to the Aurelia Theater, home to the visionary director Leopold Henneman, to play her dream role in Echo and Ariston, the Greek tragedy that taught her everything she knows about love. When the director asks Zara to promise that she will have no outside commitments, no distractions, it’s easy to say yes. But it’s hard not to be distracted when there’s a death at the theater—and then another—especially when Zara doesn’t know if they’re accidents, or murder, or a curse that always comes in threes. It’s hard not to be distracted when assistant lighting director Eli Vasquez, a girl made of tattoos and abrupt laughs and every form of light, looks at Zara. It’s hard not to fall in love. In heart-achingly beautiful prose, Amy Rose Capetta has spun a mystery and a love story into an impossible, inevitable whole—and cast lantern light on two girls, finding each other on a stage set for tragedy.
Genre: Contemporary, Mystery/Thriller
Representation:
Gender:
Cis girls: Zara, Eli
Sexual Orientation:
Lesbian/Queer: Eli
Bisexual: Zara
Romantic Orientation:
Homoromantic: Eli
Biromantic: Zara
Race/Ethnicity:
White: Zara
Latinx: Eli
Religion
Judaism: Zara
Trigger warnings: sexual harassment, attempted murder