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A Renaissance Fair is coming to the relatively quiet college town of Farberville Arkansas which is not the sort of news that usually sets local bookseller Claire Malloys heart racingnbsp But with Caron Claires perpetually petulant teenage daughter being pulled into volunteering or face the horror of doing homework over the summer and her fiancxE Police Lieutenant Peter Rosen away Claire finds herself drawn into the strange inner workings of the group putting on the fairnbspnbspnbspnbsp But just as Claire has decided that her time might be better spent fretting over the details of her upcoming nuptials one of the volunteers helping with the Ren Fair falls victim to arson her body found burned in the wreckage of her rented home Even stranger none of the members of the local chapter of The Association for Renaissance Scholarship and Enlightenment ARSE - the group putting on Farbervilles first RenFair - had ever met the woman in the flesh and cant provide any information about who she is and where she came fromnbsp However someone is definitely dead and the fire looks very suspicious - but is it murdernbsp When the fair opens tensions expose the dark secrets and malevolent schemes that lurk beneath the superficialnbspcongenialitynbspof the ARSE membersnbsp The lords are leaping the ladies are lying and the knights are fighting--while someone is committing murder most heinousnbsp And with Claires dreams of a blissful wedding hanging in the balance she has no choice left but to fling herself into the battle and match wits with the killerx.