Sabotage in the Spotlight
A Backstage Thriller

About this book:

The show must go on—even when someone's trying to kill it.

Lighting designer Morgan Blake has three weeks until opening night of *The Threepenny Opera*, a console she's programmed to perfection, and a rival who'd do anything to watch her fail. When a sabotage macro slams every dimmer to full during tech rehearsal—blinding the cast, frying the rig, and locking Morgan out of her own board—she knows it wasn't a glitch. The booth door was taped unlocked. The malicious code was written while she was at lunch. And the only other person with the access, the expertise, and the motive is Noah Vance, the golden-boy master electrician who lost this design slot to her.

With the director ready to scrap Morgan's design for a safe, generic wash, and Noah calmly gaslighting the entire production staff, Morgan has until the evening run to prove she's being framed. But the sabotage is baked into the iron and copper above the stage—in opto-splitters, DMX lines, and the forty-five-foot drop to the deck. Every cue she calls could be the last one. And someone in the wings is waiting for the blackout.

*Gorgeous technical authenticity meets relentless backstage suspense. For anyone who's ever lived in the wings, loved the smell of scorched gel, or known that the real drama happens where the audience can't see.*