She didn't fall from grace. She got yanked out the side door.

Kate's senior year at her Catholic boarding school was supposed to be predictable. Play the evil fairy. Graduate. Keep her secrets. Get out clean.

Instead, she's caught in a web of whispered confessions, forbidden crushes, and betrayals that hit far too close to home. Her friends—Ken, Joe, Eleanor, Paul, Veronica, Ben, and that annoying new transfer girl Ann—are all trying to survive the same storm, but no one's telling the whole truth. Not even Kate.

Not to their new priest, Father Fred. Not even to themselves.

And when a fire breaks out, everything they've been hiding threatens to come undone.

Offstage is the prequel to the Marduke Manor series—a story of first loves, fractured faith, and the year that turned Kate into the Queen of Christendom.