Now This — Nancy Star

In Up Next, the premiere of her acclaimed mystery series, author Nancy Star portrayed "the cutthroat world of daytime TV with...wit and verve" (Publishers Weekly.) Now this exciting storyteller proves she's more than ready for prime time, with a thrilling new installment in the life of May Morrison. The savvy single mom and high-powered TV executive is on the edge of a story to die for in... Now This For May Morrison, senior producer of TV's hottest talk show Paula Live, last season's tragic murders by a crazed coworker yielded one unexpected spinoff: flex time. Now, working three days at the office and two at home, May can better juggle the demands of her impatient bosses, who want every show to be a ratings-winner, and her children, who want every day to start with her standing alongside the other bus-stop moms, waving good-bye as they set off to school. Then she gets a call from a stranger... An agitated young man demands to know why his aunt, a school librarian, had been scheduled to appear on the Paula Live show -- and why she ended up dead before she ever got on the air. May never heard of the woman, but the relentless caller makes himself a dangerous nuisance. In fact, May's boyfriend, Police Detective Paul O'Donnell, asks her to carry a gun. Meanwhile, May's flex time starts turning to wrecked time when she breaks one of her cardinal rules: mixing home and work. Intrigued that a fellow bus-stop mom, Stacey Blum, seems to have found a fountain of youth that's taken years off the way she looks, May pitches a show about Stacey and the Southwest spa that's worked its wonders on her. Paula loves the idea of scooping Montel and Ricki with this one, but May starts to have the nagging feeling that something is wrong. And when Stacey Blum falls critically ill with a mysterious "flu," a strange pattern begins to emerge between the dead librarian, Stacey, and Stacey's friends -- a pattern which may have fatal consequences for all involved, including May. Detective O'Donnell will do anything to keep May in daytime TV and off the eleven o'clock news. He's putting their relationship on the line, and unfortunately for May, a killer is planning to put her six feet under. Nancy Star again comes out on top in a riveting suspense thriller that keeps you flipping pages instead of channels.