Midnight in Rockville

Harper Cassidy views her hometown not as a home, but as a crime scene waiting to be processed. After a scandal shatters her investigative journalism career in Atlanta, she returns to Rockville broke, humiliated, and desperate to hide behind her microphone—but the town she despises isn't done with her yet.Ten years ago, she fled the oppressive Southern heat and the memories of high school. Now, dragged back for a reunion she never wanted, Harper finds herself at the center of a new nightmare when Chloe St. James, the former Prom Queen, is found dead in the mud of the football field, a tiara still clinging to her perfectly coiffed hair.While the charismatic Mayor Beau Sterling tries to smother the investigation with sweet tea and hospitality, Harper knows the rot goes deeper than the polished surface. Her only leads come from the town recluse, Elias "e;Mothman"e; Thorne, and the cryptic advice of Miss Dee at the Oak & Griddle. To clear the name of an innocent man and reclaim her own reputation, Harper must use her sharp wit to untangle a decade of secrets. But in a town where politeness is a weapon, can she catch a killer before she becomes the next headline?