Backstage

Lance Duquette is the perpetual male lead of Sharpville’s small town theater productions. Onstage and off, females vie to be his leading lady, seemingly blinded to Lance’s love-them-and-leave-them attitude.

Backstage, Jimmy Hopkins helps with props and dreams of capturing the attention of makeup artist and wannabe playwright, Melody Light. Just as romance starts to bloom, Lance focuses his attentions on Melody. Deranged with jealousy, Jimmy threatens to make this play, Lance’s last.

When Duquette’s body is discovered backstage before the final performance, all eyes turn towards Jimmy. Only Melody believes that he is innocent. She writes her first play, Backstage, a reenactment of the events surrounding the crime, in an attempt to exonerate Jimmy

Can Melody’s creative ploy save Jimmy? Watch drama unfold backstage, while Backstage unfolds on stage, and learn what happens in a chilling and unscripted final act.

Book Blurb Fridayis hosted by Lisa Ricard Claro, who posts a weekly photo and challenges us to “write a book jacket blurb (150 words or less) so enticing that potential readers would feel compelled to buy the book.” That’s quite a challenge, but it’s a lot of fun as well. Click on the image at the left to read more blurbs or enter one of your own. This week’s blurb has 141 words.