More than fifty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. Death Takes a Diamond, a new full-length novel in the Mary Jo Assassin series, plus five new short stories, Delightfully Dizzy: A Marble Grant Story; The Five Roads Tavern and Eatery; Through the For Sale Sign: A Bryant Street Story; Smile; and Habit.

This 42nd volume of Smith's Monthly also includes the first part of The Magic Bakery: A WMG Writer's Guide; Part 2 will appear in volume 43.