"Ace freelance PR woman and amateur detective Temple Barr is thirty-going-on-nineteen when she agrees to do homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina a big favor and go undercover as a contestant on Teen Queen, a TV reality show. The lieutenant is worried because someone is threatening the contestants - including her own thirteen-year-old daughter - by leaving mutilated Barbie dolls all over Las Vegas." "Reliving the years of melodrama and teen angst while acting as a nanny-cum-diversion is bad enough, but Temple is dismayed to discover her professional nemesis is in charge of PR for Teen Queen. And, even worse, her romance novelist aunt has flown in from New York to be a judge. Can redheaded Temple fool her nearest and least dearest with a black dye job to complement her new punk persona, Xoe Chloe Ozone?" "Temple is on her own among twenty-eight unnatural blondes, who all say they'd kill to make the final cut and be named Teen Queen - and one of them might actually do it. Usually Temple has an ace or two up her sleeve, but Max Kinsella, Temple's ex-magician boyfriend, is AWOL plotting to infiltrate a sinister cabal of terrorist magicians, and neighbor-slash-sometime-love-interest Matt Devine is in Chicago, tracking down his shocking family roots." "Luckily, there's one alpha male Temple can always lean on: Midnight Louie, her black alley-cat roommate. Louie is already on the case, ensuring that all the "little dolls" under his care debut on national TV as more than lovely corpses."--BOOK JACKET.

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."