Melanie Hogan is anything but your average beauty salon owner. She's created a life for herself that's an exact contradiction to that of her wanderlust, absentee mother who bailed on her when Melanie was four years old. She has gone above and beyond to make sure her life is stable, predictable, and...boring. When she decides to add some spontaneity to her life, she learns an important lesson: Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. And she does.Velma Johnson, the town busy body, keels over in Melanie's stylist chair just as she's about to reveal a secret. As details emerge around Velma's death, Melanie enlists the help of her best friends and business partners, Claire Davis and Jack Dancy, to find the killer. Could it be one of the three stylists who work side by side with Melanie at the salon, all of whom were present when Velma died? Or perhaps it was one of the salon's clients. Suddenly Melanie's life is filled with suspects.It's a race against time as Melanie finds herself prey to a stalker intent on ruining her life, and one who's behavior is escalating. As Melanie sets out to solve the puzzle that has become her life, someone is dead set against letting her discover the truth, much less live to tell about it.