After going head-to -head with a serial killer, reporter Alex Bernier is settling into a romance with a homicide cop while the city of Gabriel is settling down for its hottest, dullest fall in history. Then Alex is assigned to cover efforts to rescue downtown Gabriel's crumbling vaudeville house. When it's torn down, the wrecking ball hits something horrible - the body of a young actress who vanished in 1926. Was she killed by her lover, convinced in the court of public opinion? Her best friend, who went on to movie stardom? As Alex delves into a long-buried mystery, she has to dodge a modern-day threat. Someone is killing the people who tried to save the theatre and is more than willing to put Alex in his cast of corpses.