❝ Things are only as beautiful as you make them, Charlie. Including murder. ❞ It's the opening night of Burton Abbey's production of Romeo and Juliet and all is going smoothly - that is until the climactic death scene. Romeo takes a big gulp of the poison to be with his lover, except it really is poison and Elijah, who plays Romeo, is now dead. Charlie Monet, in charge of props, is the first suspect but soon the suspicion around her turns to worry as it seems she's the next target. Khaleel Rahim, an aspiring writer, is dying for a mystery to solve at his new school. When he sees Charlie sneaking around at night he thinks he's finally found something worth writing about. After discovering Charlie's ability to see visions of the past, Khaleel decides that they're the perfect pair to solve the mystery. With threatening notes, a quiet library and poison disguised as props; somebody in the school is blurring the lines between theatre and reality and the fast friends are about to discover that there's more to boarding school than just silly rumours. [2022 Watty's Shortlist]

He's the boy that no one likes as much, while she's the girl that grabs the attention of most people. They never expected to cross paths, until they constantly kept bumping into each other unexpectedly. They found out that the only thing they had in common was that they have nothing in common at all. Her thought process was always befriend the loners while his thought process was always avoid the populars. Though for some reason he couldn't avoid Iris no matter how hard he tried. She isn't what he pictured to be like. It's always the one you think is innocent, right?