In the second installment of Susan McBride’s Debutante Dropout mystery series, Dallas heiress Andrea Kendricks must expose a high-society assassin … before she becomes the killer’s next target.

Website developer and high-society rebel Andrea Kendricks could not have gotten associated with ego-in-pumps lifestyle hostess Marilee Mabry if it weren’t for the underhanded machinations of Andy’s upper-crust mama. But because of Mother Cissy, Andy’s donning developer duds to attend a launch party at the about The Good Girl’s Guidebook to Murder: A Debutante Dropout Secret intolerable local diva’s new Dallas TV studio-and she’s on hand to see the special event site rise in flames!

Then Andy finds Marilee’s girl, seemingly lifeless. Even though iron-willed Cissy isn’t about to allow her public calendar be upset by minimal inconveniences like arson and possibly murder, her sometime-sleuthing daughter’s got a far more pressing engagement-namely, searching for the culprit behind some very foul play.

But you will find more than a few nasty messes saved in the Mabry closet-and a craven assassin who gets the Big D elite quaking in their cowboy boots may shortly be burying Andy in hers!