Twelfth

Better Nate Than Ever meets The Parker Inheritance in this heartwarming mystery about finding your people and accepting others as they are.

Twelve-year-old Maren is sure theater camp isn’t for her. Theater camp is for loud, confident, artsy people: people like her older sister, Hadley—the last person Maren wants to think about—and her cinema-obsessed, nonbinary bunkmate, Theo. But when a prank goes wrong, Maren gets drawn into the hunt for a diamond ring that, legend has it, is linked to the camp’s namesake, Charlotte “Charlie” Goodman, a promising director in Blacklist Era Hollywood.
 
When Maren connects the clues to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, she and her new friends are off searching through lighting booths, orchestra pits and costume storages, discovering the trail and dodging camp counselors. But they’re not the only ones searching for the ring, and with the growing threat of camp closing forever, they're almost out of time.

Janet Key is a prolific and award-winning writer of over twenty short stories and plays. Her short stories have been thrice nominated for the Pushcart Prize; her plays have been performed by Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company and at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s Southern Writer Project. In 2018, her story “Pedro” was awarded Gulf Coast’s Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, as judged by Roxane Gay, and her short play “Postscript” was selected for Samuel French’s Off-Off Broadway Festival.