Better Nate Than Ever meets The Parker Inheritance in this heartwarming mystery about finding your people and accepting others as they are.
Twelve-year-old Maren is sure theater camp isnt for her. Theater camp is for loud, confident, artsy people: people like her older sister, Hadleythe last person Maren wants to think aboutand her cinema-obsessed, nonbinary bunkmate, Theo. But when a prank goes wrong, Maren gets drawn into the hunt for a diamond ring that, legend has it, is linked to the camps namesake, Charlotte Charlie Goodman, a promising director in Blacklist Era Hollywood.
When Maren connects the clues to Shakespeares Twelfth Night, she and her new friends are off searching through lighting booths, orchestra pits and costume storages, discovering the trail and dodging camp counselors. But theyre not the only ones searching for the ring, and with the growing threat of camp closing forever, they're almost out of time.