"After years of rigorous instruction and ensemble work, Kit finally gets her big break when she's hired to play the lead role in a new opera based on the 1960s cult classic, Barbarella. Entrusted with playing the beautiful and seductive titular role, Kit is on her way to the top - and then she walks into rehearsal and meets her understudy. Stunning, suggestive, and wildly confident, Yolanda is physically everything Barbarella is meant to be. But with no formal training, Kit isn't threatened, until Yolanda reveals that she deserves the role, and will do anything to get it. Yolanda is as cunning as she is beautiful, and as her schemes become increasingly dangerous, she draws an unwitting Kit into her seductive orbit. But when a shocking murder destabilizes the company and threatens her role, Kit begins to discover the wickedness beneath her understudy's glittery surface. Hunting down the betrayed friends and discarded lovers from Yolanda's past, and unearthing secrets 'she's worked hard to conceal, Kit discovers just how far Yolanda is willing to go to get what she wants"--