A Small Sacrifice

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Artistic director Cordelia Thorn and four of her former college coterie-all theater majors-plan an "intervention" for the sixth member of their group: alcoholic friend Diana, who has opened a playhouse in Summer Green, Wisconsin. What seemed to be a harmless reunion of theater friends from college turns out to be anything but, and Cordelia Thorn’s reaction to tragedy is to call in her old friend Jane Lawless. Soap opera star Diana Stanwood is the Shevlin Underground’s biggest success, but the other five members of the troupe are deeply concerned about her life-threatening alcoholism. Trying to save Diana stirs memories—and secrets. When one of their own drops dead, the circumstances have Jane as worried as Cordelia. True to their friendship, Jane and the wise-cracking Cordelia follow their hunches, leading them into the not-so-carefree past and back to the troubled present, where they find a single match could blow up all their lives.