If all the world's a stage, New York City has the best scenery.Life at her family's Manhattan art deco HOpewell Hotel hasn't gotten any easier for Scarlett. Her job as assistant/servant to the ever-eccentric and newly self-appointed theatre agent Mrs Amberson is running her off her feet. Plus, Scarlett can't keep her mind off Eris, her sort-of ex-boyfriend.As if the universe is determined to destroy what little of her mind she has left, Scarlett's new lab partner Max may just be the most irritating and infuriating person she has ever met. But New York is still a city of constant surprises, and a whopper of one is just waiting round the corner for Scarlett...