It's a major autumn event for South Carolina's culture set - specifically, the Bravissimo Club, a booster organization designed to raise money for the Charleston Opera - and Theodosia Browning is there.

Asked to host the lavish tea and the Verdi-themed Masked Ball, Theodosia has a lot on her mind - especially after she finds the dead body of her arch nemesis, Abby Davis while riding her horse in a race through the South Carolina Low-country. To further complicate things, the victim’s brother happens to be Theodosia’s old flame. Who’d have guessed they’d be reunited through cold-blooded murder?

As the opera house is transformed into a sumptuous Venetian carnivale, Theodosia’s investigation into Abby's murder takes her from the Low-country thicket to a grand formal tea and to the backstage maze of a darkened theater, where a maestro of murder waits for the next cue. All proving that when it comes to high drama, Theodosia can give Verdi a run for his money.

INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES AND TEA TIME TIPS!