Professor Justie Czech’s manuscript may have indeed abetted the assassination of the most powerful person in the financial universe, crashing capital markets and instantly annihilating billions of dollars in global asset value.  But heck, it was only a first draft! Five years ago, after a #MeToo moment with her graduate thesis advisor, Justie wrote an unpublished novel, based on that professor, in which a fictional Chairman of the Federal Reserve was murdered using a clever ploy to evade his security team. Now that man is the actual Fed Chair. When Justie’s book is published ― against her will, she claims ― and his real-life murder mimics the fictional one, an angry public blames Justie for tanking their 401(k)s. When a second murder makes Justie’s direct involvement virtually undeniable, the tabloids in London, where she is currently teaching, start calling her “Dr. Death.”  To get her life back, Justie needs to figure out which of the readers of her original manuscript took the plot a little too seriously.

At an academic conference she didn’t want to attend, Claire is pulled into a tightening vortex of murdered philosophers, betrayed colleagues, cheating spouses, and …frozen sperm.

Justie did not mean to abet the assassination of the most powerful person in the financial universe; it just kind of happened.