Fawn Thomas is a teenage rock music fan who, with friends Chloe and Cynthia, just met her idol, Jake McGuire of Calliope's Children, backstage at a concert. Five days later, Chloe was kidnapped.With the help of school buddy Steve, Fawn attempts to track down her friend, only to learn from an off-duty LAPD detective about the Black Cross Murders . . . a string of crimes dating back to the late 1960s. And Fawn is next on the killer's list.Fawn and Steve connect each of the victims to Jake McGuire, and when Fawn has the opportunity to insinuate herself into Jake's household, she swallows her fear and goes for it.The attempt to save her own life takes Fawn from the Hollywood Hills into the most rundown areas of Mexico, where she finds part of the puzzle in a small, rundown church.Fawn learns she's not the only one in danger. Her friends and even her own grandmother are at risk, and Fawn takes more and more chances not only to save her own life but to protect the others before the killer's "deadline" is up.Old rock stars, psychics, artists, gym rats, and religious zealots come together to make Fawn's week-long investigations more curious and more dangerous.