Firebrand

What's worse than getting dragged into a murder investigation because you tried to help a friend? Answer: Getting dragged into a murder investigation, drug ring, and criminal syndicate because someone mistakes you for a friend of your most despised coworker. When Eliza sees the man dead on the floor of Saul's Diner, she's more annoyed than scared. Until they all realize the man's death wasn't caused by a heart attack and Queen Bee Danielle blames Eliza's cooking. Fit to be tied, Eliza is determined to let Officer Gordon figure out who really killed the guy and put her energy toward not getting kicked out of culinary school after a reporter prints Danielle's spiteful accusations. But Eliza is Eliza, and staying out of things never works out quite the way she expects. When she is somehow mistaken for a friend of Danielle's by the people who actually killed the guy in the diner, she quickly finds herself up to her eyeballs in creepy fish, a burgeoning drug ring, scary criminals who like to put black bags over people heads before they kidnap them, and baking a three tier birthday cake at the last minute for someone she doesn't dare refuse. Eliza has never hated Danielle more, but helping her is the only way to save herself. After that, Danielle is fair game.