'I think it was one of us,' Walter says ... 'We had the perfect opportunity. Everyone's thinking it, I'm just saying it.' The last thing Hallie and her drama classmates expect to find on a high school scavenger hunt is a dead body. In a town with a population of about thirty-six, no one has experience with murder investigations, but now everyone's asking: who killed Ms Lovelace. The drama kids thought they were the only people nerdy enough to be at school on a Sunday. When they learn that Adam Tolentino, football star, drama-club nemesis and the hottest boy in school, was there too, Hallie is given the task of finding out what he knows - but she soon learns there's more to Adam than meets the eye. Although still grieving her favourite teacher, Hallie knows the show must go on. Managing a musical and a murder investigation is a lot, but Hallie and her friends won't give up on Ms Lovelace - or each other.

Meg Gatland-Veness is a high school drama teacher. She attended the University of Newcastle, where she studied a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Secondary Teaching. Meg has been writing stories for as long as she can remember and reading them even longer. Equal to her love of words is her passion for championing local youths and fostering important conversations about issues facing young Australians. Meg was born in a tiny country town called Milton and now lives on the Central Coast of New South Wales. When she's not writing novels, she channels her creativity into choreographing and directing musicals, writing poetry, singing and dancing. Meg is the author of I Had Such Friends (2018), which was shortlisted for the ABIA Small Publishers' Children's Book of the Year in 2019. When Only One is her second novel.