Center Stage

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Center Stage</em> is the first book in the completed <em>USA Today</em> bestselling Magnolia Steele Mystery series by <em>New York Times</em> <em>Wall Street Journal</em> and <em>USA Today</em> bestselling author Denise Grover Swank.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ten years ago Magnolia Steele fled her hometown of Franklin Tennessee with hazy memories and a deep-seated fear of the place where she was born and raised.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Despite the destruction of her relationships she vowed never to return.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But when her Broadway acting debut ends in disgrace she has no choice but to seek refuge in the very place she ran from...</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>home</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Her first night home Magnolia reluctantly agrees to help her mother's catering company at a party for a country music star only to find herself face-to-face with a sleazy music agent from her past.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After a very public altercation the agent is found dead and Magnolia finds herself center stage in the police investigation.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As she is scrambling to prove her innocence she discovers the past isn't finished with her yet and the truth she can't remember may be her greatest danger.</span></p><p></p>