Anthony Award–winner Hilary Davidson weaves a thrilling story of paranoia, vengeance, and murder. When travel writer Lily Moore joins a group of journalists for an all-expenses-paid junket to Acapulco, she expects sun, sand, and margaritas. Instead, she finds that the Mexican city, once the playground of Hollywood stars, is a place of faded glamour and rising crime. Only after Lily tries—and fails—to leave the does she discover the truth: the journalists are prisoners in a gilded cage.