Nasty notes, scrambled scripts and faulty fixtures plague a women's theater company. Are their lives in danger from a malicious outsider or is one of the audacious women in the troupe the villain? The producer, also the owner of the secluded women's inn where the company is in residence, begs Stoner to investigate these bizarre threats. Meanwhile Stoner feels Gwen is being seduced away from her. Can she bring Gwen back to her senses before everything is in shambles and someone is dead - or is she really and truly all on her own as the web of malice tightens around her?